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The Office for National Statistics has revised up its estimate of second quarter growth from a 0.7% contraction to a fall of 0.5%.

Aviva has said up to 800 jobs at its UK business are under threat as it continues to drive through cost-cutting measures.

A group of lawyers and investment consultants working on a service to aid £0.5bn of institutional infrastructure investment denies it is competing with the government's Pension Infrastructure Platform.

The Costain Pension Scheme has shed £35m of liabilities through a series of transfer exercises.

Association of British Insurers will work with the Financial Services Authority and The Pensions Regulator on a ‘disclosure protocol' for pension charges.

The Environment Agency Active Pension Fund is set to drastically reduce its gilt holdings in favour of corporate bonds after reviewing its investment strategy.

Bernard Abrahamsen offers alternative sources of index-linked income.

Consultants are seeing a surge of interest in incentivised transfer exercises after the publication of a code of practice earlier this summer brought some certainty to the market.

The Pensions Administration Standards Association is to produce a code of conduct for third-party administrators to address problems faced by schemes switching providers.

Andrew Malek looks at how hedge fund structures have ‘dramatically changed’ since the credit crisis.