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The Department for Work and Pensions' plans to abolish transfers between contracted-out defined benefit and defined contribution schemes could lead to a "firesale" of final salary liabilities, a consultant warns.

UK - The Department for Work and Pensions' plans to abolish transfers between contracted-out defined benefit and defined contribution schemes could lead to a "firesale" of final salary liabilities, a consultant warns.

Mercer and Marsh are to consolidate their Manchester operations early next year in a move that will house 400 employees under the same roof.

The BBC's offer of reviewing executives' pension top-ups has been dismissed as "too little too late" by the National Union of Journalists.

Smaller consultancy firms could win the "battle" for medium-sized schemes in the next five years if consolidation among the top firms continues, Steve Delo says.

The Investment Governance Group plans to have its principles on defined contribution governance agreed by October, its DC subgroup chairman says.

Time is running out. That is the message from senior industry figures this week as we edge nearer 6 April 2011 - the government's target implementation date of tax relief restriction.

Senior industry figures are pleading for an early government announcement on pension tax relief restriction rules because "time is running out" for employers to implement changes.

The possible move from Retail Prices Indexation to Consumer Prices Indexation to index private sector pension increases will force schemes to amend de-risking contracts, industry figures say.