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Industry
Members of the EMI Group Pension Fund have been issued annuity policies in the wake of the landmark £1.5bn buyout last year.
12 February 2014
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Admin / Technology
Trustees are spending too much time on documentation, member gripes and box-ticking rather than focusing on more fundamental aspects of running their schemes, an independent trustee says.
12 February 2014
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Law and Regulation
Most of the 41 pension liberation cases currently under investigation by the Pensions Ombudsman (PO) are complaints against trustees blocking transfers to suspicious vehicles.
12 February 2014
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Admin / Technology
Two former members of Aon Hewitt's third-party admin team have launched a consultancy to design, optimise and implement employee benefit administration solutions.
12 February 2014
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Defined Benefit
The aggregate deficit of schemes in the PPF 7800 rose by £48.9bn in January, to £76.5bn.
11 February 2014
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Appointments
The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) has waved farewell to independent trustee Michael Butcher who retired on 31 January.
11 February 2014
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Defined Benefit
The deficit at Barclays' UK Retirement Fund increased 75% in 2013, hitting £1.4bn by the end of the year.
11 February 2014
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Law and Regulation
The number of pension liberation complaints under investigation by the Pensions Ombudsman (PO) has risen to 41, PP can reveal.
11 February 2014
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Defined Benefit
Cornwall Pension fund will invest £60m of its £1.4bn fund into active frontier market equities co-managed by HSBC Global Asset Management.
11 February 2014
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Industry
The government is planning for people to spend longer in retirement, says pensions minister Steve Webb.
11 February 2014
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