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The Treasury has announced a four-month extension to its consultation on reforming the Retail Prices Index (RPI) in response to the Covid-19 crisis.

$57.9bn of trading losses for the month

Around £25bn of buy-ins and buyouts are set to be transacted this year despite the Covid-19 challenges, according to Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP).

Boutique asset managers have outperformed both passive indexing and non-boutique active managers in periods of elevated volatility over the past 20 years, latest research by Affiliated Managers Group reveals.

Using the flexibility offered by pension freedoms to access pensions early without considering long-term consequences will leave savers struggling to make ends meet, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has warned.

This week’s top stories included the Smurfit Kappa UK Pension Fund’s completion of a £1.2bn fiduciary and liability-driven investment deal with River and Mercantile, and figures showing pension transfer activity has dropped to its lowest level since 2014....

Pension transfer activity has dropped to the lowest level since the introduction of the pension freedoms, research by Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP) reveals.

Mads Gosvig has been named chief fiduciary officer for investments at RPMI Railpen, joining on 16 April.

The People’s Pension (TPP) has appointed Baroness Jeannie Drake and Mark Condron to its board of trustees.