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

Potential changes to the Retail Prices Index (RPI) could land some schemes with a fall in their funding level as high as 12% according to Barnett Waddingham.

Cardano has appointed Marino Valensise as its group chief investment officer from Barings Asset Management.

The Smurfit Kappa UK Pension Fund is set to complete the transition and onboarding of £1.16bn of mandates to River and Mercantile Group following a full market retendering process.

Schroders has partnered with K3 Advisory to offer its fiduciary management clients up to-date market information and pricing to help decision making around endgame options, such as buy-in or buyout.

The Co-operative Pension Scheme (Pace) has agreed its third buy-in this year, insuring £400m of liabilities in the Co-operative Bank section of the scheme with Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC).

Every month, several firms issue trackers of the aggregate defined benefit (DB) scheme funding position. See here for the March 2020 estimates on the various measures…

The £30bn Brunel Pension Partnership has hired CACEIS to provide cost transparency and benchmarking services across the partnership.

Seven tranches

The Pensions Regulator has set out further guidance on its approach to agreed reporting requirements for employers, trustees, pension advisers and providers as they navigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.