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New pensions minister Ros Altmann has outlined her primary objectives in the role, including safeguarding the retirement ‘freedoms' that were introduced last month.

Irwin Mitchell has added a fifth lawyer from DWF to its expanding pensions team since December, with Andrew Ashley Taylor coming on board as partner.

Origo has launched a website aimed at the occupational pensions market, to highlight the issues around pensions transfers and the solutions available.

The High Court has ruled the legal team representing scheme members in the IBM battle will take control of their arguments as the case drags on to the Court of Appeal.

The BBC is looking to develop an online health and wellbeing portal and launch resilience training for staff and managers as part of its extended wellbeing offering across the business.

Pension funds are being pressured to support a shareholder resolution to force Chevron to halt spending on high-carbon assets and instead return capital to shareholders.

Sterling has fallen after the Bank of England downgraded its growth forecasts for the UK economy while indicating it could start to raise interest rates in mid-2016.

Judges in the US and Canada have ruled Nortel's assets of $7bn (£4.5bn) should be equally distributed among its creditors, in what lawyers say is a victory for UK pensioners.

Just Retirement and Partnership have seen sales of individual annuities collapse in the months running up to the introduction of the pension freedoms.

Insurers completed just £800m of buyouts and buy-ins in the first quarter of the year, according research from LCP, far below the £4.4bn written in the first quarter of 2014.