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ShareAction has launched a campaign to allow pension scheme members to contact funds with concerns over pay policies in the businesses they invest in.

The Pensions Ombudsman (PO) upheld complaints against the Marks & Spencer Pension Trust in two cases involving retirement quotations.

The European Commission has shelved plans to relax the funding requirements on cross-border schemes, according to reports in the Financial Times.

The UK's headline inflation rate dropped to 1.7% in February, its lowest level since late 2009.

Individuals who have been on a zero-hours contract for at least 12 months should be given the legal right to switch to a fixed hours contract, a thinktank has argued.

The government is backing calls for more public services to be sold off and delivered by private companies owned by employees.

RPMI has appointed former Towers Watson managing director of Europe, the Middle East and Asia (EMEA) Babloo Ramamurthy as a non-executive director to its board.

The Pensions Ombudsman (PO) has refused to order the Prudential to pay compensation after it took too long to transfer a member of its own scheme's funds to Scottish Widows.

Legal & General (L&G) pensions strategy director Adrian Boulding has succeeded Railways Pension Trustee Company chief executive Chris Hitchen as chairman of the Pension Quality Mark (PQM).

JLT Employee Benefits (JLT EB) has bought Ensign Pensions Administration from the Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund (MNOPF).