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WATSON Wyatt, Legal & General Investment Management, MNPA, Northgate HR and Malcolm McLean have been named as winners of the UK Pensions Awards' special 10th anniversary accolades.

HSBC has paid its employees staff bonuses worth more than £27m. But senior executives missed out because the bank failed to meet performance targets.

SEI has selected Capita Hartshead to provide pensions administration services to its DC master trust solution.

UK - The government has announced a funding review of the Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS), to see if assets from insolvent companies can help deal with lost pensions.

US - A number of investment staff at Los Angeles County Employment Retirement Association (LACERA) board have received pay rises of more than 40% in efforts to prevent them deserting the fund in favour of the private sector.

THE PENSIONS Management Institute has launched a vocationally related qualification for administrators of self invested personal pension schemes and small self administered schemes.

GLOBAL - MSCI Barra and Standard & Poor's (S&P) have launched Islamic indices designed to reflect Shariah principles and dividend purification rules.

UK - Private sector defined contribution (DC) pension schemes must take more responsibility for investment strategy, warned the Pensions Institute at Cass Business School.

UK - The increasing longevity of pension fund members adds around £15bn a year to UK private sector companies' liabilities, claimed a new KPMG survey.