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Universities UK (UUK) has appointed Ronnie Bowie, Sally Bridgeland and Chris Curry to the Universities Superannuation Scheme's (USS) joint expert panel, to examine the valuation of the USS.

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has named Claire Curtin as head of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG).

Just Group has launched a business in a bid to transform the way trustees, members and financial advisers implement and participate in scheme transfer exercises.

Professional Pensions senior correspondent James Phillips has scooped a gold award at the MHP Young Journalist Awards.

Here they are - the winners of the UK Pensions Awards 2018...

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has named Stephen Wilcox as chief risk officer, replacing Hans den Boer who leaves the lifeboat fund after just over three years in the role.

UK consumer price inflation fell 0.1 percentage points in April to 2.4%, a fresh one-year low and missing economists' expectations of inflation remaining at 2.5%.

The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) had a markedly improved year in 2017 as high returns helped increase assets to £263bn as of March 2017.

A "tentative and apologetic approach is ingrained" at The Pensions Regulator (TPR) but its leadership is not equipped to make the cultural change required for more effective oversight, MPs have said in a letter to the regulator.

Local government minister Rishi Sunak says his department's priority is to make a success of local government pension pooling, warning there is no room for complacency.