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Consultation on pension reforms at Royal Mail began this week and will run for two months.

Human resources directors' ignorance about the differences in pension benefits of senior employees can be divisive, Watson Wyatt warns.

A guide to private equity investments for pension fund trustees has been launched by the Trades Union Congress.

Increasing intervention in how defined contribution schemes are run could scare smaller firms away from pension provision altogether, a consultant warns.

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership has named Dean Buckley as its new chief executive.

The senior management team at Gissings Advisory Services Limited has bought out the firm backed by private equity investor Dunedin.

A drop in the number of applications for clearance from The Pensions Regulator should be seen as a good thing, a pensions lawyer says.

ABN Amro Asset Management's Dynamic Asset Allocation Fund has raised more than £300m from investors since its launch six months ago.

IRELAND - A call for legislative reform on integrated pensions has been met with skepticism from the Irish Association of Pension Funds (IAPF).