Revised IAS19 measures will remove perceived barriers to de-risking and make companies focus more on the discount rate used to measure scheme liabilities, says Mercer.

Marks & Spencer has changed the terms of its £1.1bn pension funding partnership after the Financial Reporting Review Panel expressed concerns over amendments made to the arrangements.

More than £12bn of scheme risk was transferred to insurers last year after a small number of huge deals in the final quarter gave the market a significant boost, says Aon Hewitt.

The collective pension deficit of Britain's biggest companies has increased by £30bn since the beginning of May, according to Towers Watson.

Aviva saw its new life and pensions business in the UK fall in the first quarter as a 16% fall in annuities sales offset a rise in new pensions business.

The Northcroft Pension and Assurance Scheme has entered the Pension Protection Fund assessment period after its sponsoring employer was sold through a pre-pack insolvency.

More than one in five small trust-based defined benefit schemes do not hold annual board meetings, according to research from The Pensions Regulator.

The Bayer Group Pension Plan has moved to paperless trustee board meetings in a switch it says will cut its annual paper usage by 45,000 pages.

JLT Wealth Management has confirmed it is suspending defined benefit transfer exercises after the Financial Services Authority issued new guidance on how transfer values are to be calculated.

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