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Barnett Waddingham's Andrew Roberts has been appointed chairman of The Association of Member-Directed Pension Schemes.

Institutional investors have poured £26m into F&C Investment's new climate change focused private equity fund of funds in a bid to target the burgeoning climate change investment sector.

B&CE is to launch a new brand to extend its pension provision to the wider market in November.

The Actuarial Profession has suggested scheme actuaries be barred from advising companies on funding but stopped short of proposing an outright ban on actuaries working for both trustee and sponsor.

Auto-enrolment may not make a difference to saving rates until 2015, according to the Con­federation of British Industry.

Schemes are continuing to focus on equity performance risk despite reducing allocations to this class, research finds.

Social care will suffer as people work for longer and receive a smaller pension, Pensions Policy Institute research director Chris Curry told delegates.

The Daily Mail and General Trust has overhauled its employee financial awareness blog site in a bid to drive up member engagement.

A lawyer has urged the Pension Protection Fund to clarify its appeal process after the The Pensions Trust successfully argued for a reduction to its schemes' levy.

Trustees should resist the urge to cut communications budgets in response to evidence pensions are becoming less highly valued by employees, argues Capita Fiduciary Group.