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Aon Hewitt has been appointed actuarial advisers to German chemical firm Evonik's four UK pension schemes.

The Daily Mail and General Trust pension fund has launched a programme to encourage members affected by the reduced tax-free lifetime allowance to apply for fixed protection.

The UK has sold £700m of long-dated index-linked gilts for a negative real yield of 0.116%, the lowest level ever recorded.

The Pensions Regulator has dismissed claims payroll providers are dragging their feet in the development of suitable systems to cope with auto-enrolment.

The Pensions Management Institute will be switching tack over the course of 2012 in response to the changing nature of the pensions industry.

Council scheme managers have been left in limbo over investment strategy changes due to a vacuum of information on Lord Hutton's pension changes, managers say.

Adviser group Paradigm is set to launch a standalone corporate wrap next week.

The European Commission has confirmed its ban on gender-based annuity pricing will not apply to occupational defined benefit schemes.

Legal & General Investment Management has launched a diversified fund aimed at defined benefit and defined contribution pension scheme investors.

Unilever staff set to resume pension protest; Trade union irritation with Ed Miliband boils into open rebellion