EU plans to introduce a risk-based approach to calculating capital funding requirements for insurance firms may be extended to include defined benefit schemes.

TV LICENSING workers at Capita are threatening to strike in a bid to achieve equal pensions rights for all staff.

David Neal, head of Watson Wyatt's investment consulting practice in Australia, has resigned to become chief investment officer of the Future Fund.

UK - The Shetland Islands Council pension fund and Warwickshire County Council pension fund have dramatically increased allocations to alternatives in a bid to diversify their portfolio's.

SCHRODERS property multi-manager team has boosted its number of local authority mandates to nine with the addition of Shetland Islands Council and Warwickshire County Council.

BNP Paribas Securities Services will create 370 new jobs in its Glasgow and Dundee offices over the next five years.

Scheme sponsors have been urged not to ditch tried and tested trust-based pension provision.

ACTUARIES calling for a shift towards shared risk schemes are eagerly awaiting the final report from the department for work and pensions' delayed deregulatory review.

MILLIONS of scheme members have never reviewed their pension plans and risk a "serious shortfall" on retirement, research by Baring Asset Management reveals.

NEARLY one-third of employers have little confidence their defined contribution scheme will provide workers with an adequate pension on retirement, research by SEI shows.