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Tax chiefs have won a High Court battle over a "sham" pension scheme transfer.

Professional Pensions will be moving to Incisive Media's head office at Haymarket House, 28-29 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4RX on February 22.

Laurie Edmans has been reappointed as a non-executive director of The Pensions Regulator by work and pensions secretary James Purnell.

UK - The announcement the Pensions Regulator (TPR) could use mortality assumptions made in pension scheme evaluations as 'triggers' has been met with a cautious welcome.

GERMANY/UK - Law firm Wragge & Co has been appointed by two Celesio sponsored company pension funds to advise trustees.

THE Pension Protection Fund is to consult on changing assumptions in a bid to bring section 143 and section 179 valuations in line with pricing in the buyout market.

The £2bn Avon Pension Fund is looking for multi-managers to run two specialist active property portfolios worth a total of £250m.

Private equity creating jobs, says BVCA; Doubts hang over future of Pickfords; UBS posts $13.7bn sub-prime write-down

UK - The UK pension fund buyout market in Q4 2007 increased by more than twice the previous three quarters put together, according to Aon Consulting.

The department for work and pensions is to examine new deregulatory measures to ease burdens on defined benefit schemes, Professional Pensions can reveal.