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Standard Life has added over a £1bn worth of new business to its corporate pensions platform in the first quarter, outstripping sales for the last six months of 2012.

Severe delays and errors have hit the payment scheme set up by government to compensate victims of Equitable Life, a report from the National Audit Office (NAO) has found.

Ameriprise Financial has appeared to rule out a potential acquisition of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP), saying available M&A opportunities "do not meet our criteria".

Buyers will have to inform trustees of their intentions for target companies' defined benefit schemes when bidding to take over a business from next month.

The proportion of schemes' UK corporate portfolio invested in equities has fallen to just a quarter, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.

Here it is. The Department for Work and Pensions' list of key proposals for creating a system to consolidate small DC pots when members move jobs.

The majority of defined contribution savers say they would prefer to a pension scheme that was designed around providing a target retirement income, research from Hymans Robertson shows.

The Department for Work and Pensions has appointed Sarah Healey as director for private pensions, PP can reveal.

The Pensions Management Institute (PMI) has elected Paul Couchman as its new president, replacing Susan Andrews who will step down later this year.

The Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed it will create an ‘automatic transfer' system for small pots of less than £10,000, allowing workers to take their pensions with them from job to job.