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KPMG has appointed Andy Seed as a director in its defined contribution pensions advisory team as part of a drive to double its DC business.

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Mercer has restructured its investment business, integrating its global consulting and asset management businesses.

The National Audit Office has opened an investigation into The Pensions Regulator's handling of the defined contribution industry.

Oil giant Shell is to close its defined benefit pension scheme to new joiners and replace it with a UK defined contribution plan.

The British Medical Association has taken the first step towards industrial action by surveying doctors on their readiness to strike over planned changes to their pensions.

The government should suspend the use of enhanced transfer value exercises until an urgent review into the practice has been completed, argues Fidelity.

The Pension Protection Fund is setting up a panel of administration firms in a bid to cut the time schemes spend in its assessment period.

Government calculations on public sector pension savings have been labelled "fundamentally unsound" after independent analysis revealed increasing retirement ages failed to cut taxpayer costs.

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