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COSTS of providing generic financial advice should be borne equally by government and the financial services industry, the interim Thoresen Review report says.

THE PENSION Protection Fund has admitted a further two pension schemes.

ESHARE has launched a survey to discover how environmentally friendly the pensions industry is.

Firms and trustees are seeing costs rise through failing to assess the full range of scheme buyout options, PricewaterhouseCoopers warns.

THE PENSIONS Regulator has used its powers to appoint three independent trustees to Telent Pension Scheme's board of trustees.

REGULATION of self-invested personal pensions by the Financial Services Authority has boosted the market, advisors believe.

EQUINITI Benefit Solutions has selected Aquila to provide it with administration software.

FRIENDS PROVIDENT is still "fully committed" to a merger with Resolution and has hit out at criticism of it new business operations and strategies.

Full details of next year's UK Pensions Awards will be unveiled in two weeks' time but, before then, Professional Pensions wants its readers to help choose the providers that should be vying for the prizes.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has won its high-profile age discrimination battle against former partner Peter Bloxham who challenged changes to pension provision.