Five stories you may have missed this week

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This week's top stories included the Trades Union Congress calling for collective defined contribution schemes after finding a bad year of investment performance a year before retirement can leave savers £5,000 a year worse off.

Also, Hymans Robertson research found master trusts are taking too much risk in the run-up to retirement, while the Bank of England raised interest rates to 0.5%, the first rate hike in over a deca...

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