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The quest to find this year's Pensions Personality of the Year is now entering its final phase.

Nearly a third of pension schemes moved more than 5pc of their investment portfolio to bonds last year, research by Aon Consulting reveals.

Workers at Rosyth dockyard have threatened to walk out over moves to increase their pension contributions and raise the retirement age.

CONNAUGHT Asset Manage-ment has launched two funds focusing on strategic land investment.

THE 6000 MEMBER MG Rover Pension Scheme has become the biggest fund to formally transfer to the Pension Protection Fund.

THE TRUSTEES of J Sainsbury Pension Schemes have no power to force a private equity bidder to put more cash into the fund, a consultant claims.

AVIATION support services company Alpha Group has cut the deficit in its defined benefit pension schemes by £9.6m.

SCHEMES are in danger of missing March deadlines for submitting valuation and recovery plan information to the Pensions Regulator, Hewitt Associates warns.

SHAREHOLDERS can expect to see substantial falls in pension fund deficits when companies publish their year end accounts next week, Aon Consulting says.

TRUSTEE payments have reached record levels with chairmen of larger schemes receiving, on average, £25,000 a year, a new report shows.