CAPITA Share Plan Services has acquired the share incentive plan administration business from Abbey National AESOP Trustees for an undisclosed fee.

"Crazily conservative" actuarial valuations are forcing employers to put more funds into schemes than is needed, a consultant says.

Ministers will plunge the industry into greater confusion unless they clarify how alternatively secured pensions can be used, Hargreaves Lansdown warns.

JARDINE Lloyd Thompson Benefit Solutions is launching a series of breakfast seminars in the autumn to address flexible benefits and salary sacrifice.

How and when The Pensions Regulator will choose to flex its muscles will be of major significance as it enters its second year, a lawyer says.

Northern Trust has appointed David Copley to take on the newly-created position of head of investment operations outsourcing for Europe.

Icelandic retail group Baugur is set to make a formal bid for House of Fraser after reaching a deal over its £106m pension scheme deficit.

INSTITUTIONAL investors should reject bosses' pay plans at material technology firm Dyson Group because executive remuneration "falls far short of best practice", governance experts say.

BA employee costs up

ETHICAL stocks are more popular with fund managers than ever before, F&C Asset Man-agement says.