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AllianceBernstein has launched a range of ethical target date funds for the UK DC market.

The Pensions Regulator's new objective to consider employers' growth prospects is expected to allow struggling companies to cut back on contributions.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has said the abolition of contracting out, brought forward to 2016, does not mean defined ambition proposals must be finished earlier.

Partnership has expanded its defined benefit business with the appointments of Mike Walsh and Martin Parker.

The industry has called on pensions minister Steve Webb to publish guidance on defined ambition schemes as the abolition of contracting out has been moved from 2017 to 2016.

Complex scheme structures do not cause higher administration costs, research from CEM Benchmarking shows.

The Pensions Regulator has denied it is forcing trustees to use a gilt-based mechanism to measure liabilities, in the face of calls to be more flexible on valuations.

More than a dozen schemes are undertaking medically underwritten buy-ins with Partnership, after the first two ‘enhanced' buy-ins were completed by the insurer last year.

More trustees must engage with initiatives like the Stewardship Code, according to UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association.

The government will issue less debt this year but increase the percentage of index-linked gilts it auctions at the expense of short-dated conventional gilts.