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A guide to private equity investments for pension fund trustees has been launched by the Trades Union Congress.

The senior management team at Gissings Advisory Services Limited has bought out the firm backed by private equity investor Dunedin.

A drop in the number of applications for clearance from The Pensions Regulator should be seen as a good thing, a pensions lawyer says.

Takeover attempt aborted

The extent of trustees' duty of care to the Pension Protection Fund will be clarified in a forthcoming court case, a lawyer and trustee claims.

Global equity funds are favouring emerging markets over the US, with several managers also looking at opportunities in large-cap growth stocks, research shows.

Trade union Unite is backing moves to block the proposed sale of Telent to Pension Corporation unless there are guarantees over the £3bn pension fund.

Transfer fears allayed

Legal & General is to use postcodes as an additional risk factor for annuities following a pilot study with independent financial adviser Hargreaves Lansdown.

Chilean pension fund regulator SAFP is giving schemes a year to bring their portfolios back within legal limits.