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Aberdeen Asset Management has renamed its £24bn alternatives business as Aberdeen Solutions to better encompass its multi-asset offering.

Bleak figures reveal the gulf between public and private sector pensions continues to grow with 83% of government workers enrolled compared with just 33% of private sector employees.

Specialist equity firm Four Capital Partners is set to expand its institutional business with the hire of Angus Scrace.

Charges on a government-backed pooled UK infrastructure vehicle owned and run by UK pension funds will be capped at 0.5%, the Treasury infrastructure policy chief confirms.

Rolls Royce Holdings has more than halved its post-retirement deficit to £397m and continued its concerted programme of de-risking.

Pensioners count the cost of Bank moves to stimulate economy; Ford moves pension fund assets to bonds to limit risks

The government has redrafted legislation on asset-backed funding published two months ago - potentially jeopardising transactions in progress, a consultant says.

The Royal Bank of Scotland has confirmed a £3.5bn shortfall in its pension scheme after recording actuarial losses of £581m this year.

Towers Watson has appointed Nico Aspinall to lead its UK defined contribution investment business.

More than a third of defined benefit schemes have recovery plans that exceed the ten-year limit set out in guidance from the regulator, research finds.