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The Employer Covenant Practitioners Association (ECPA) has promoted Andy Palmer to chairman from his vice chairman role, replacing Paul Burnett.

Mark Condron, Caroline Legg and Jill Mackenzie have been appointed as professional trustees at Capital Cranfield in response to growing client demand.

Keith Hinds has been appointed by Dalriada Trustees as a professional trustee, joining from his head of pensions advisory role at Grant Thornton.

Royal London is eyeing a takeover of LV= that could value the group at around £500m, according to reports.

Mothercare has negotiated an extension to its scheme contributions schedule with a significant level of deficit expected following the offloading of its UK business last November.

Pension contributions and class one employer National Insurance (NI) contributions remain payable by employers making use of the government’s coronavirus job support scheme.

TISAtech has launched an ESG investment strategy evaluation in collaboration with the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA).

This week’s top stories include XPS Pensions research showing GMP equalisation back payments owed to members could be as high as £25,000. Also, a quarter of institutional investors are to increase their investment in cryptoassets by 2025.

Here they are – the winners of the second annual Professional Pensions Rising Star Awards...

The TI Group Pension Scheme, sponsored by industrial technology firm Smiths Group, has completed a £142m buy-in with Aviva.