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THE PENSION Protection Fund has unveiled the scaling factor enabling schemes to calculate their levy bills for 2007-2008.

HARGREAVES Lansdown has announced the indicative offer price range and published the prospective for its impeding initial public offering.

THE FINANCIAL Services Authority has clamped down on two independent financial advisers after control failings led to 650 defined benefit scheme members being exposed to significant risk of financial loss.

TOTAL FRS17 deficits for the 200 largest pension schemes have fallen to just £14bn, Aon Consulting reveals.

TYPICAL earners will retire on an income equivalent to little more than the minimum wage, latest research by Fidelity International reveals.

SBJ GROUP has bought the pension trustee training business of Comberford Trustee Services for an undisclosed sum.

THE PENSIONS Regulator must use its powers to make an example of trustees who fail to pay proper attention to a sponsor's covenant, an adviser says.

THE INSTITUTE of Chartered Accountants of Scotland has issued guidance to help trustees with their decision making process.

INDEPENDENT Myners compliance reviews should become best practice in order to force trustees to think more about the principles, financial services giant PricewaterhouseCoopers says.

CLAIMS that the Myners principles are already entrenched as best practice have been rejected by FairPensions.