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Property fund manager RREEF has made its first investment in the UK regional hotel sector by acquiring the independent hotel group Four Pillars.

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Cover for DB deficits

Standard Life has urged pensions reform minister Mike O'Brien to allow financial advisers to ignore clients' individual circumstances when making recommendations about pensions.

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Trustees should not carry out their own covenant assessments instead of paying external advisers for the service, managers believe.

HBOS has retained Watson Wyatt as scheme actuary and ongoing pension adviser to the trustees of the HBOS Final Salary Pension Scheme.

Trade union Unite has attacked Standard Life over "gatecrashing" the £8bn merger of Resolution and Friends Provident.

An independent trustee has hit back at ministerial claims trustees are slowing down payouts to scheme wind-up victims.

Postal workers look set to step-up their strike action amid fears Royal Mail may be planning to close its final salary pension scheme to all employees.