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Aberdeen Property Investors has launched its second Asian fund of funds offering investors real estate exposure across the Asia Pacific region.

Group self-invested personal pensions can be "dangerous" if they are not provided with the right advice, Scottish Widows warns.

The Lothian Pension Fund is tendering for an investment manger for its £380m property portfolio - around 12pc of its overall assets.

Receivers at haulage company Fransen Transport are winding up the pension scheme almost two years after the firm went into liquidation.

Directors of the UK's top companies have amassed huge pension pots while cutting benefits for staff, the Trades Union Congress claims.

Trustees of schemes which qualify for help from the Financial Assistance Scheme will be banned from buying annuities for their members later this month.

IIMIA Investment Group has announced plans to merge with multi-asset manager MitonOptimal Group - a move allowing it to benefit from developments in the UK pension fund market.

RETIREMENT income expectations far outstrip actual average annuities, with 47pc anticipating more than £25,000 a year, according to new research by Norwich Union.

AGGREGATE defined benefit funding levels fell from a surplus of £51bn in July to one of £27bn in August, latest data from The Pension Protection Fund reveals.

RESOLUTION and Friends Provident have changed the legal structure of their planned merger in an attempt to derail opposition from Pearl Assurance.