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PHARMACEUTICAL giant Bayer has implemented a state-of-the-art pension governance system in a bid to change the way trustees manage the £750m scheme.

COUNCIL schemes may have to pay if they want to make increased use of the Government Actuary's Dep-artment, a senior civil servant warns.

UP TO a dozen firms could be competing for bulk annuity buyout business by the end of the year, a leading consultant predicts.

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NEWS group Reuters will pay £230m into its two defined benefit schemes over the next two years to tackle a pensions shortfall.

ANYONE hoping that ministers might suddenly produce a rabbit from the hat in their White Paper on Pensions Reform would have been sorely disappointed. In fact, the proposals put forward were rather a damp squib - scarcely surprising given that virtually...

SCHEMES are being warned to expect lower equity returns in the second half of this year.

PREMIER Pension Services - a division of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Benefit Solutions - has bought Friends Provident's small self-administered scheme business.

ACTIVE membership in the UK's biggest private sector schemes has fallen to almost one-fifth, new research reveals.

OPPOSITION MPs have attacked the chancellor for sowing doubt over restoring the link between the state pension and the increase in earnings.