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BESTRUSTEES has hired Richard Stroud, the former chief executive of The Pensions Trust, as an independent trustee.

JUST RETIREMENT is targeting independent financial advisors with the launch of a campaign for better annuities.

FTSE 100 firms could clear their pension deficits within a year using discretionary cashflow but would be making a mistake by doing so, KPMG warns.

HSBC Actuaries and Consultants has expanded its investment consultancy practice to provide a dedicated resource based in Scotland.

THE lifeboat fund amendment attached to the Pensions Bill to rescue scheme wind-up victims has been scuppered by the government

Co-operative Financial Services has announced its intention to shed 1000 jobs.

Seven Investment Manage-ment will target minority institutional investors as it breaks away from Killik & Co to form a separate, independent company.

Proposed regulations on calculating pension transfer values will encourage trustees to be more explicit about where they are building prudence into funding assumptions, consultants claim.

PRUPIM and LaSalle Investment Management have teamed up to form the first open-ended pan-Asia Pacific fund for pension schemes and other institutional investors.

More than a third of schemes have not offered any formal or structured training to their trustees, research by The Pensions Regulator reveals.