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The Pensions Regulator and Department for Work and Pensions are launching a website to guide employers' communication to staff throughout the auto-enrolment process.

Poorer than expected asset returns, a falling discount rate and increasing longevity assumptions have almost doubled the Johnston Press Pension Plan deficit in 2011.

Standard Life has increased the number of members of its schemes to 1.16m over Q1, up from 1.09m in the first quarter of 2011.

The UK economy contracted by 0.2% in the first quarter of the year, meaning it has slipped back into technical recession, preliminary estimates from the Office for National Statistics show.

Tony Morris was a "deeply involved central figure" in the alleged £52m GP Noble pension scheme fraud and instigated the illegal transfer of funds, a court has heard.

Sky high gilt prices at the start of 2012 have increased the attractiveness of bulk annuities for schemes holding gilts, a survey says.

State Street Global Advisors has launched ten leveraged gilt funds aimed at small to medium-size pension schemes.

EU officials were subject to bruising exchanges over the impact of Solvency II on UK pension funds during a work and pensions select committee hearing yesterday.

The trial of Tony Morris, who is accused of defrauding a number of pension funds as part of the £52m GP Noble fraud, has started at Southwark Crown Court.

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