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Growth in the use of liability-driven investment (LDI) strategies accelerated in 2013, according to the Investment Management Association (IMA).

Luba Nikulina has been promoted to global head of manager research at Towers Watson after Craig Baker's appointment to chief executive.

Standard Life has announced it is closing its defined benefit scheme - currently used by 55% of its employees - to future accrual from April 2016.

Even prudent retirees risk making poor decisions when pension freedoms kick-in next year, with more than one in three intending to switch their savings into a bank account.

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) will relax the tough stance it intended to take on non-property asset backed contributions (ABCs) after concluding a consultation on changes to its levy, PP understands.

The deficit of schemes in the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) 7800 index has more than doubled year-on-year, the latest data has shown.

The final touches have been made to Scottish Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) regulations ahead of their coming into force next April.

A High Court judge has criticised British Airways (BA) for leaving the trustees of its pension scheme at risk of bearing the defence costs of an ongoing court case.

National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) remains the largest auto-enrolment (AE) master trust with over 1.5 million members as of 1 September 2014.

Saker Nusseibeh believes it is the responsibility of schemes to drive long termism