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The Association of Consulting Actuaries has launched its latest Pension trends survey, which will gather information and opinions on auto-enrolment and the Pensions Bill.

Standard Life Investments has appointed Neil Odom-Haslett as head of commercial real estate lending to lead the group's entry into this market in the UK.

Labour has tabled an amendment to the Pensions Bill which would give The Pensions Regulator (TPR) the power to force trust-based defined contribution (DC) schemes to merge.

The volume of spam text messages advertising pension liberation fell by 78% after a police raid on a call centre at the heart of a fraudulent operation in the City, according to figures.

Friends Life has appointed John Van Der Wielen chief executive of its UK and international divisions as David Hynam leaves the UK role after just eight months in post.

Aon Hewitt has increased the size of its benefits solutions team with the appointment of Stephanie Valles to business development manager to help cope with more client demand for its services.

The government has added a clause to the Pensions Bill that could exempt companies from having to auto-enrol staff who would not benefit from being put into a scheme.

Now Pensions has almost tripled the size of its sales team in anticipation of the next phase of automatic enrolment (AE), increasing its staff from 12 to 32.

Pensions minister Steve Webb yesterday laid draft regulations before Parliament which will ban consultancy charging (CC) on auto-enrolment (AE) when they come into effect.

Matt Frost has taken up the role of chief executive at Shilling as founder Kevin Shilling becomes chairman.