CANADA - Canadian institutions have yet to take any meaningful action on the growing risks posed by climate change, despite their growing awareness, the Carbon Disclosure Project's (CDP4) Canada 280 report has found.

AUSTRALIA - Tony D'Aloisio, formerly managing director and CEO of the Australian Stock Exchange, is to be appointed a new commissioner at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).

THE PPF has collected more than £10m in risk-based levy charges in the two weeks since sending invoices out, PP has learned.

REGULAR communication of pension benefits can boost scheme take up by nearly 50pc, Winterthur Life says.

ROWANMOOR Pensions is hosting a nationwide roadshow to explain the technical issues surrounding pensions post A-Day.

US - Sheryl Abshire was re-elected as board of trustees chair for the US$14bn Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (TRSL).

Local authority contractors will be forced to scrap the "Rule of 85" irrespective of whether they want to keep the provision, lawyers claim.

Scheme sponsors are under pressure to use outdated mortality tables to mask deficits while trying to attract investment or clinch deals, an actuarial firm claims. And Punter Southall said ignoring latest mortality assumptions was "just one way" company...

UK - Edmund Truell, former head of Duke Street Capital, has received backing from US financier Christopher Flowers for his pension buy-out firm, media reports have claimed.

Local authority contractors will be forced to scrap the "Rule of 85" irrespective of whether they want to keep the provision, lawyers claim.