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The trustee of the £1.8bn Rexam Pension Plan has appointed Towers Watson's Colin Singer as scheme actuary.

Pension Corporation has reinsured a further £400m tranche of longevity risk associated with its policy holders with Munich Re.

The exclusion of the new Fair Deal policy from the Public Sector Pensions Bill risks reopening pension disputes with public sector workers, Labour MPs warn.

The National Association of Pension Funds and the Confederation of British Industry are "very much hoping" George Osborne will announce a consultation on discount rates in the Autumn Statement tomorrow.

Labour MP Keith Vaz is to lead a debate on changes to police pension provisions in Parliament this afternoon.

Tube workers will strike for 24 hours from 6AM on 23 November over a long-running pensions and benefits dispute.

Jonathan Stapleton on scheme conversions

Corporate pension sales at Prudential have dipped to £148m for the first nine months of this year, its third-quarter results have shown.

Public sector pensions need further reform before 2020 to avoid an annual £32bn liability for UK taxpayers, Centre for Policy Studies research fellow Michael Johnson says.

The average time taken to get through the Pension Protection Fund assessment should fall below 12 months after the introduction of a new data audit tool, says the lifeboat fund.