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The Pensions Infrastructure Platform will not open to smaller pension schemes until mid-2013, after delays pushed back the fund's launch date.

The number of trust-based DC schemes has fallen by 40% over the last 14 years but the remainder have larger memberships, The Pensions Regulator's data reveals.

Children's charity Barnardo's has announced it will close its defined benefit scheme ahead of auto-enrolment.

The Western United Group Pension Scheme, one of Vestey Group's schemes, has agreed a £115m buy-in with Rothesay Life.

Cornwall Pension Fund has selected AXA Investment Managers to manage a £50 million LDI mandate.

The implementation of the single-tier state pension will cost the Exchequer £265m, according to official figures released today.

The state pension reforms announced yesterday have been widely welcomed as a much-needed simplification, but where there are winners, there must be losers.

Prime Minister David Cameron denied the end of contracting out will create a wave of further closures of final salary pension schemes.

Capital Cranfield Trustees has named Bob Bridges as its chairman.

This afternoon the government will unveil its long-awaited state pension white paper, revealing decisions on the future of contracting out and increasing the state pension age in line with life expectancy.