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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the increased risk of pension scams after freedom and choice takes effect.

Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) Workplace Savings has appointed BESTrustees to its trustee board with effect from 1 April 2015.

Women are projected to see their retirement incomes grow by a third by 2060 as the gender gap continues to narrow, according to figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

Only one in seven people retiring in the next 12 months have done extensive research about their options according to Fidelity Worldwide Investment.

One in ten (9%) employees are limited by a long-standing illness or disability (LSI), figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveal.

Andrew Murphy has been promoted to partner by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

Schemes with foreign parent companies that go bust should find it easier to get into the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) under cross-border insolvency reforms from the European Council (EC).

Low paid workers in occupational schemes will lose an incentive to contribute to a pension after the personal allowance is increased next month.

The big news in UK pensions this week was the Budget. If you've managed to avoid hearing about it, or were just waiting for PP's edited highlights, here's what you might have missed.

Just three out of ten pension professionals support plans to let pensioners cash in their annuities according to research by PP.