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Pensions minister Steve Webb reaffirmed his crackdown on short-term cash incentives to delegates by revealing plans to bring forward a code of practice in May 2012.

Government has ruled out new changes to collective defined contribution scheme regulations after criticism legal restrictions will kill off the sector.

Cabinet ministers are urgently reviewing proposals to merge the Local Government Pension Scheme into a single superfund to improve its governance structures, Professional Pensions understands.

Pension funds should steer clear of alternative investments like hedge funds, commodities and private equity to help shake up the capitalist system, delegates heard.

EIOPA's consultation could impose Solvency II requirements that would send the UK pension system into "limbo", according to Mercer.

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Calls to lift the annual indexation cap from Financial Assistance Scheme compensation have been dismissed by pensions minister Steve Webb during a Parliamentary debate.

The Daily Mail & General Trust has agreed a 12-year deficit recovery plan to tackle its £336m pension deficit.

The London Borough of Hillingdon Pension Fund has appointed J.P. Morgan Asset Management to run part of its fixed income portfolio.

The Investment Management Association has denied pension fund managers are excessively trading assets and hiding the cost this presents to consumers.