Five stories you may have missed this week

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This week's top stories include The Pensions Ombudsman rejecting a complaint against Standard Life for refusing to provide a second transfer value quotation.

Also, The Pensions Regulator revealed it issued 173 fines for failing to prepare governance statements in 2016, and the new work and pensions minister complained of previous governments ‘tinkering'...

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