Five stories you may have missed this week

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This week’s top stories included the selection of BlackRock as fiduciary manager for the £4bn legacy Electricity Supply Pension Scheme.

Also, National Grid sealed its second buy-in deal of the year, and The People's Pension confirmed technical issues were holding back fee cuts for members.   1) UK Power Networks appoints Blac...

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