LINDA PAINTER has joined pension communications specialists Anthony Hodges Consulting.

REDINGTON PARTNERS has appointed Mark Herne and David Thompson as senior consultants in a bid to broaden its business.

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HSBC Actuaries and Consultants has appointed John Longhurst as a senior consultant in a bid to develop its range of trustee based services.

ITM has backed guidance from The Pensions Regulator which identifies conditional data dependent on scheme types.

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UK - The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is set to end its ban on the short selling of stocks of UK financial sector companies.

HYMANS ROBERTSON has hired four senior consultants in an expansion of its investment team.

UK - Waterford Wedgewood's pension liabilities could be swept into the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) even if a buyer steps in to purchase the troubled company.

US - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has agreed to provide additional protection for Visteon Corporation's pension plan - covering more than 5,300 former employees of the automotive supplier's closed facilities in Connersville and Bedford,...