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USDAW is set to launch a new website to help its members understand pensions more.

THE MINEWORKERS' Pension Scheme has appointed Wendy Mayall as a non-executive trustee and chairwoman of its investment sub-committee.

MORE than 60pc of UK workers are against the planned increase in state retirement age, research shows.

GERMANY - Credit Suisse Asset Management CEO Peter Roemer has left the firm to take up the post of head of European institutional business with Deutsche Asset Management.

A PUBLIC consensus on pension reforms is as important as a political one, the government claims.

AN INCREASE in the number of people seeking pensions advice reflects a growing concern with the system, The Pensions Advisory Service believes.

A HANDFUL of schemes could avoid the Pension Protection Fund's risk-based levy if new actuarial assumptions are adopted, actuaries say.

Discount rate assumptions used to calculate scheme deficits vary by up to 0.2 percentage points, a difference that could significantly increase liabilities, a survey shows.

THE PARLIAMENTARY ombudsman said the government should accept her findings of maladministration and "get over it".

THE PENSIONS Action Group is calling on members to sign a claim form to enable their cases to be heard in the European Court.