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Pensions minister Ros Altmann should focus on three areas to improve UK schemes over the next five years says Tor Financial managing director David Harris.

DWF has hired Sinead Sheehan from Squire Patton Boggs after losing seven pension lawyers to rival firms in the last six months.

Minister for disabled people Justin Tomlinson will be the spokesman for pensions in the House of Commons, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed.

Government keen to soften the blow on departing sponsors

Just one in eight European pension schemes plan to increase passive investment over the next three years while half will put more capital into active, according to a survey.

Kevin LeGrand has left Buck Consultants to become an independent consultant.

David Taylor has been made an executive director at the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) and will sit on the board.

The proportion of people looking to take their pensions as cash has declined by almost a third over the weeks since the launch of the freedom reforms, according to research.

Deficits in UK defined benefit schemes remained at "eye-watering" levels in May and are more than 50% higher than they were this time last year, according to JLT Employee Benefits.

Defined contribution (DC) schemes at some of the UK's biggest companies are speeding up diversification of their default funds, according to a report by Schroders.