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The Royal Opera House has confirmed it is consulting with scheme members on closing its final salary scheme next year.

Schemes should turn to inflation-linked assets such as long-lease property and mature infrastructure to cope with an insufficient supply of index-linked gilts, say consultants.

Professional Pensions has launched its inaugural Investment Performance Study - and we are looking for your views.

The UK's main inflation rate has fallen to 2.2% in September from 2.5% in August, dropping to its lowest level for three years.

Threadneedle has appointed John Peta as senior fund manager leading the firm's emerging market debt team as well as three other hires within its global fixed income team.

Government plans to consolidate small pension pots are "impractical" and risk "damaging retirement savings, a broad coalition of organisations argues.

Redington has appointed John Towner as director of its consulting team and Aniket Das as an actuary in its manager research team.

Britain is among eight governments which have signed a letter saying they are "very concerned" that the cost of European Union pensions will rise to £2bn a year by 2045.

The Australian government passed the law last week to establish a trans-Tasman retirement savings portability scheme.

IBM has lost a rectification case in the High Court which will cost the computing giant £100m.