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Professional Pensions, Global Pensions' sister title recently held its annual show in London. Pinsent Masons' partner Robin Ellison grilled pensions minister Angela Eagle on the implementation of personal accounts and automatic enrolment in the UK

Jonathan Stapleton spoke to UK's Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) pensions communication and policy manager Teresa Berkengoff about its pension quality mark, member communication and an innovative financial awareness programme it is launching for employees...

Caroline Allen looks at how strong emerging markets are driving interest from institutional investors

John Dickson of Hymans Robertson explains how schemes can take advantage of medium-term anomalies in order to boost returns

Ruth Bamforth of Eversheds rounds up some of the year's most interesting cases involving LGPS schemes

Sebastian Cheek asks why reform to the local government pension scheme is needed and how it can be achieved

In a keynote session at The PP Show, Pinsent Masons partner and former NAPF chairman Robin Ellison grilled pensions minister Angela Eagle about personal accounts, deregulation and the state of private sector provision

Closing a defined benefits scheme to future accrual is a simple way of derisking, but as Gill Wadsworth points out, it is far from a problem-free solution and not the only option worth considering

The move from defined benefit to defined contribution represents a huge transfer of responsibility from employer to employee, meaning member communication has never been more important, as Sebastian Cheek explains

While a return to the highs of the market's peak still look a long way off, Linda McKay of Hymans Robertson sees reason to be positive on property