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Updated 12:15: The FTSE suffered triple-digit losses in Tuesday trade after a third explosion rocked Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant, raising fresh radiation fears and sparking a 1,000-point plunge on the country's Nikkei index.

Benign markets and the shift from RPI to CPI reduced defined benefit deficits from £144bn to £64bn over the past year, Pension Capital Strategies research shows.

Jonathan Davis, who was announced as the ABI director of investment affairs in November, has revealed he will not take up the role after all.

Mercer has signed up three of the UK's biggest corporate benefit providers to launch a corporate wrap platform to meet the rapidly changing market place.

Already popular in the US, ETFs have begun to take hold in Europe but many pension funds overlook the advantages of this type of investment as Helen Fowler reports

The top 100 UK firms' defined benefit schemes knocked £42bn off their combined deficit over the last year, Pension Capital Strategies research shows.

UK - The combined pension deficit of FTSE100 firms could jump by £25bn ($39.7bn) in one month due to unhedged risk exposure, a report suggests.

The combined pension deficit of FTSE100 firms could jump by £25bn in one month due to unhedged risk exposure, a report suggests.

UK - The total deficit of FTSE100 pension schemes decreased to £66bn ($105bn)in the third quarter, Pensions Capital Strategies analysis shows.

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