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Auto-enrolment legislation may lead to an increase in performance-related litigation, as employers are not specifically protected from responsibility for investment results.

Schemes should seize the opportunity to invest in infrastructure projects as banks scale back their exposure to illiquid assets, Redington argues.

A group of lawyers and investment consultants working on a service to aid £0.5bn of institutional infrastructure investment denies it is competing with the government's Pension Infrastructure Platform.

Public sector employers are running out of time to make sure they comply with incoming auto-enrolment legislation, experts warn.

Supreme Court ruling welcomed

A Supreme Court ruling permitting firms to retire workers at a fixed age has been welcomed by experts as an important clarification of mandatory retirement laws.

Auto-enrolment legislation needs to be redrafted to clarify whether employees are allowed to obtain and complete opt-out forms before their enrolment date, argue lawyers and consultants.

The date of sponsor insolvency should be used to calculate section 75 debt liabilities - saving sponsors millions of pounds in potential liabilities, the High Court rules.

In a recent Professional Pensions story, a lawyer said that the method chosen by the Department for Work and Pensions for equalising GMPs could be challenged. Do you agree?

Law firms Pinsent Masons and McGrigors have confirmed plans to merge the two organisations following a partner vote.