LANE Clarke & Peacock Corporate Consulting has appointed David Bush as partner in its London actuarial team.

Rules designed to stop high earners avoiding tax if they breach the lifetime pension allowance are causing problems for poorer pensioners, First Actuarial claims.

Hutton hints at pensions aid rethink; Fears over light-touch regulation of foreign firms; McCreevy gets Brussels raging by lionising private equity

CANADA - T. Rowe Price announced plans to open an institutional office in Toronto, to be headed by Watson Wyatt's Wendy Brodkin.

NETHERLANDS/UK- Northern Trust was awarded two custody mandates in the last two days - by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council pension fund and Stichting Bedrijfstakpensioenfonds Zorgverzekeraars (SBZ), worth €3bn and €2.3bn respectively .

US - Cigna Corporation has agreed to a proposal by New York City Pension Funds to disclose its policies and procedures for political donations.

US - Rob Feckner and Robert Carlson have been re-elected as president and vice president of the CalPERS board of administration.

SCOTTISH health workers and teachers have secured their final salary pensions but they will have to pay increased contributions.

SCOTTISH Life head of pensions strategy Steve Bee has started an e-petition calling for government assurance that people will be better off after joining personal accounts.

US - International equity outperformed and US small caps comfortably outperformed US large caps in the last quarter, Mercer Investment Consulting has found.