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The Pensions Institute has predicted there will be rapid growth in medically underwritten bulk annuities as schemes turn to ‘top-sliced' deals and traditional insurers get into the market.

Girish Menezes has joined KPMG's pension's team as a principal with responsibility for the implementation of systems across the pension's administration business in the UK.

The Pensions Ombudsman (PO) has sided with members of the Police Pension Scheme who were hit by a tax penalty when they returned to work after retiring.

GMB members at United Utilities in the North-West are being balloted over industrial action in response to plans to close the company's defined benefit (DB) pension scheme.

Mercer has made Martyn Phillips a partner in its UK bulk pensions insurance advisory group.

Sackers has elevated Georgina Jones to partner and Katharine Swire to senior associate in the law firm's pensions team.

A judgement has ruled that UK employees who travel between locations such as seafarers are eligible for auto enrolment (AE), in a landmark victory for the regulator.

State pension reform could cost local authorities and public sector contractors £1bn if the government forces them to pay for inflation protection, according to Mercer.

More than a third (36%) of employers have seen staff enquiring about transferring from a defined benefit (DB) to a defined contribution (DC) pension scheme since April, research finds.

Pooling the local government pension scheme (LGPS) into infrastructure-focused funds is mere tinkering and will not be enough to repair its deficit hole, according to Michael Johnson.