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Aon Employee Benefits has launched an online retirement platform, Bigblue Touch 4life, to give scheme members access to freedom and choice.

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Jeremy Corbyn has named MP for Pontypridd and former shadow secretary of state for Wales Owen Smith as shadow work and pensions secretary.

Government plans to merge ISAs and pensions would harm retirement saving and mean more retirees run out of money, Axa Wealth head of retirement planning Andy Zanelli has warned.

Heineken's Scottish and Newcastle Pension Plan has completed a £2.4bn longevity swap with Friends Life.

Aon Employee Benefits has launched an online retirement platform, Bigblue Touch 4life, to give scheme members access to freedom and choice.

National Grid UK Pension Scheme has handed Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) a mandate to manage £13bn of assets after selling its in-house manager to the firm.

Redington has announced ambitious new growth plans involving the recruitment of up to 20 professionals.

The biggest stories on PP this week included political controversy surrounding the pensions minister, annual allowance charges and planned changes at the Pensions Ombudsman.

Lawyers have warned that defined benefit (DB) schemes face unnecessary extra VAT charges unless HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) makes it less complicated for them to reclaim tax.