Royal Dutch Shell is set to buy its smaller rival BG Group for almost £50bn in the biggest deal in the energy sector for decades.
But could this apparent change of strategy from the energy giant, which accounts for up to 8% of dividends received by pension scheme investors, threaten the flow of pay outs to shareholders? No...
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