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MID-MARKET private equity investment in firms with final salary scheme deficits has plummeted, a survey by Grant Thornton Corporate Finance reveals.

SCHEMES risk losing out on alpha returns by switching to liability-driven investment strategies, Morley Fund Management warns.

SCHEME members with only death-in-service benefits could lose enhanced protection for their pension rights due to an error in legislation, consultants warn.

LORD Turner's National Pension Savings Scheme is "a monolith that will fail to deliver", an international pensions expert warns.

SCHEMES should be concerned at the unhealthy domination the "Big Four" audit firms have on the market, governance experts warn.

TALKS to avert a strike by West Midlands bus drivers in a row over their pensions have been adjourned until the end of the month.

THE TRICKLE of compensation payouts to scheme wind-up victims looks, at last, as though it may increase.

INDEPENDENT trustees have welcomed the pragmatic approach the Financial Assistance Scheme is taking to data collection in its bid to speed up initial payments.

BUSINESSES will need "three to four years" to prepare for the proposed National Pension Savings Scheme, employers warn.

DEFERRED members face a 40pc tax charge on trivial commutation payouts following ADay changes, a trustee says.