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The Pension Protection Fund is set to add specialist farmland and timberland fund managers to its investment manager panel to assist its alternative investment programme.

The Association of British Insurers must force pension providers to push retirees towards specialist annuity advice, the National Association of Pension Funds says.

The union-led appeals against the government's indexation switch will go ahead later this month and coincide with a protest against the changes outside the court.

Law firms Pinsent Masons and McGrigors have confirmed plans to merge the two organisations following a partner vote.

FTSE350 pension scheme deficits remained "stubbornly high" during January, hovering just above a combined shortfall of £80bn, data from Mercer shows.

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IT firm RM has begun a consultation to close its defined benefit scheme to existing members in a bid to limit its exposure to the schemes growing liabilities.

More than £70m has so far been paid out to some 95,000 individual policyholders in Equitable Life, according to a progress report from the Treasury.

Millions of workers are losing billions from their savings because of "sharp practice and murky pricing" in the annuity market, research claims.

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