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American pension manager ignoring call for attention in studio (7)

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I believe the answer is:

atelier

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'studio' is the definition.
(atelier is a kind of studio)

'american pension manager ignoring call for attention' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'american' could be 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names) and 'a' is found within the answer.
'call' could be 'tel' (short for telephone) and 'tel' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'ier' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'in' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for atelier that I've seen before include "I relate to workshop used by artist" , "Artist's workroom" , "Artist's studio (French)" , "room for artist" , "Designer's workshop" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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