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Deficits for defined benefit pension schemes fell in 2010 but schemes still have some way to go to reach the funding levels of 2008, latest figures show.

In the second part of our run-down of the top 20 most read Professional Pensions Online news articles in 2010, we look at the 10 most popular stories of the year.

In the first part of our run-down of the top 20 most read Professional Pensions Online news articles in 2010, we look at those in eleventh to twentieth place.

A pensioners' association is challenging BAE Systems' decision to switch their pension indexation from RPI to CPI.

The Consumer Price Index is a bad measure for uprating pensions and needs to be replaced with a measure to include housing costs, the Royal Statistical Society says.

Pension buyouts are set to break all records next year, after deals for the first three quarters of 2010 exceeded all of 2009, Pension Capital Strategies says.

Inflation figures published today prove the government is making poor people worse off by using CPI for measuring pension payment increases, Labour says.

Laura Blows looks at the unique challenges for the LGPS within the public sector, the implications of the Hutton report for these schemes and the practicalities of potential reforms

A large part of the industry has slammed the government's announcement preventing private sector schemes the power to override scheme rules enabling a shift from RPI to CPI indexation.

Rachel Reeves has attacked Steve Webb for "changing the rules of the games" in switching from RPI to CPI.