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SCHEMES withdrew more than £11bn from UK company securities last year, latest figures from the Office of National Statistics show.

The National Association of Pension Funds has recruited a team of third-party administrators to represent its PensionsForce programme.

MEMBER-NOMINATED trustees must feel properly valued in order to continue their role, trustees say.

STANDARD Life Investments has launched an investment-only funds platform for defined contributions schemes.

ALL scheme boards should include one trustee appointed by The Pensions Regulator, the ombudsman believes.

A QUARTER of the UK's top 100 companies now have a surplus in their pension scheme, latest figures from Deloitte reveal.

INSIGHT Investment has appointed chief executive Douglas Ferrans as its new chairman despite being "generally opposed" to such moves.

CORPORATE governance campaigners have urged institutional investors to oppose plans for a boardroom shake-up at media company Aegis - its third in the last nine months.

A QUARTER of small and medium-sized businesses do not review the investment performance of staff pensions, a survey says.

THE personal accounts contribution cap should not exist purely to protect providers from extra competition, the work and pensions committee has concluded.