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Former BP Pension Trustees chief executive officer Sally Bridgeland is joining Avida International as a senior adviser.

Fidelity Worldwide Investment has launched an at-retirement service ahead of the deadline for implementing the new flexibilities for defined contribution (DC) members next April.

Pension funds could have been cheated out of millions of pounds by manipulation of the £3trn foreign exchange (FX) markets, warns Mark Taylor, dean of Warwick Business School.

The government has slashed the incremental increase to the state pension offered to workers who delay their retirement.

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) says it could reduce the levy it collects from schemes after strong asset performance and low levels of claims saw its surplus increase last year.

Retirees could find it difficult to access regulated financial advice when considering defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution (DC) transfers according to Punter Southall.

The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) and the Money Advice Service (MAS) will struggle to cope with the scale and speed of meeting the guidance guarantee, industry figures say.

Further communication about salary sacrifice car schemes would be appreciated by 85% of scheme participants, according to a survey carried out by Zenith.

Double Olympic gold medallist James Cracknell is set to lead a new project on the long-term impacts of obesity and inactivity for the think tank Policy Exchange.

HM Treasury is set to change tax rules in a bid to help providers develop new retirement income products that better meet the evolving needs of members.