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Liberal Democrats in government must act more urgently to radically reform public and private occupational pensions, delegates at the party's Spring Conference will hear.

Here it is. The Liberal Democrats' policy motion on public and private sector pensions - which is being put forward at the party's Spring conference tomorrow.

Labour's Rachel Reeves has attacked the government for forcing the Bank of England's to pursue its deficit-wrecking QE policy to "compensate" for its poor fiscal support.

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Stock markets are too skewed towards fund manager performance figures and need to be re-orientated to focus on "pounds, not alpha" to serve savers better, John Kay says.

F&C has hired Steve Ilott as head of multi strategy investments in its newly-launched Investment and Institutional Business.

The Bank of England has left interest rates unchanged at and signalled its intention to continue with its £325bn programme of quantitative easing.

The Pension Infrastructure Platform is set to bypass construction risk and offer both debt and equity investment portions for UK investors, plan organisers say.

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Balfour Beatty has slashed its pension deficit from £354m to £188m over the last year through a mixture of employer contributions, de-risking and changing actuarial assumptions.