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By Adam Cadle

News in brief, mandates and product launches from this week

LV= has added seven new funds to those available through its Flexible Transitions Account. The new funds are the Fidelity Multi Asset Allocator Balanced, the Fidelity Multi Asset Allocator Defensive, the Fidelity Multi Asset Allocator Growth, the Threadneedle Global Equity Income, the Threadneedle UK Equity Alpha Income, the Threadneedle European Select and the Threadneedle Defensive Equity & Bond.

Selectapension has enhanced its online calculators allowing advisers to run RDR-friendly pension switching analyses for the first time. The enhancements allow reports to be run with a variety of premium and fund-based charging structures when performing transfers for money purchase, defined benefits, provider comparison and income drawdown.

F&C has achieved PLATINUM in Business in the Community’s (BITC) 2012 Corporate Responsibility Index (CRI). F&C now has integrated corporate responsibility (CR) into its business model and clear CR processes operating throughout its businesses.

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The Pensions Insurance Specialist

Other stories you may find of interest:

LDI falls in popularity in Q4 2009
Pension schemes placed less emphasis on inflation hedging in the last quarter of 2009 (Q4 2009), according to F&C's latest Liability Driven Investments (LDI) Survey

Bigger investor focus on health and safety
Last year, companies focused on avoiding errors that led to the 2008 crisis, but 2010 also saw a bigger focus on the less obvious outcome of the crisis - the need for socially responsible investing, said F&C Investments

Pension funds continue to hedge interest rate bets
UK pensions funds decreased their inflation hedging by almost a third in Q2 2010, compared to Q1 2010, but have maintained similar levels of interest rate hedging, says F&C

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