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Shoe retailer Stylo has restructured its business to avoid going into complete administration saving its pension scheme from falling to the Pension Protection Fund.

Schemes have increased life expectancy assumptions used for funding valuations by 11 months in reaction to regulatory pressure, Mercer says.

Keren Holland talks to Joe Haslip, assistant controller for pensions, New York City about how the funds are coping in this challenging environment

More than 500,000 pensioners could be missing out on over £800 because of inaccurate benefit rule assumptions, the Liberal Democrats claims

TWO fifths of the population will run out of retirement income by the time they reach the age of 85, with two-thirds expecting to live to age 85, research by Lincoln Financial Group reveals.

Many women remain in the dark about forthcoming changes to their state pension, The Pensions Advisory Service warns.

Rapidly falling inflation risks tipping over into deflation, which could prove beneficial to the country's pensioners, Punter Southall claims.

More than 60pc of charitable organisations have not assessed the financial consequences of 2012 pensions legislation, research shows.

Extra pressure on companies with final salary schemes by trustees, investors and government could "seriously weaken" businesses and deepen the recession, employers have warned.

TWO independent consultants have launched a service aimed at helping trustees meet governance objectives on record keeping.