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Friends Provident has categorically rejected an acquisition proposal by Resolution, a bid vehicle set up by entrepreneur Clive Cowdery to target UK insurers and asset managers.

The number of schemes asking advisers to consider climate change in their recommendations has increased significantly over the past year, the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change annual report reveals.

US - Hedge fund manager Gregory Bell and his firm Lancelot Management have been accused by national prosecutors of facilitating a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme allegedly operated by Minnesota businessman Thomas Petters.

Azzurri Communications has implemented online flexible benefits for their 700 employees and aligned its 17 pension schemes.

Schemes holding index-linked gilts as a match to pensions in payment need to be aware that deflation will hit their returns, First Actuarial warns.

Life-long low earners should not join personal accounts or any pension scheme linked to the stock market, the Life Academy warns.

The Pension Protection Fund has published an updated statement of investment principles, setting out revised principles and policies governing the investment of its funds.

Pensions plan for councils splits experts; Markets confused by Bank's gilts move

Crédit Agricole and Société Générale finalised an agreement to combine their asset management operations.

The Pensions Archive Trust and The London Metropolitan Archive have launched a range of educational outreach programmes in a bid to stimulate interest in pensions and saving for retirement.