GLOBAL - Mercer's investment consulting business has undergone a management shake up as it moves to takes advantage of growing demand for implemented consulting.

Pensions actuaries under scrutiny; 'Saga generation' squeezed by credit crisis; Purnell: 'There is no such question at the moment'

GLOBAL - Standard & Poor's has launched two indices for the commodities and natural resources sectors.

EUROPE - The UK's National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has today endorsed the T-Charter and called for the establishment of a pan-European steering group to further develop the set of principals.

Professional Pensions has held its third Conjecture debate to discuss trustee liability.

LUCIDA has become the first pensions buyout firm to sign up to the Raising Standards of Pensions Administration Group's general statement of administration standards.

MEMBERS of defined contribution schemes face severe erosion of purchasing power because of high inflation, Aon Consulting warns.

Some Local Government Pension Scheme managers are threatening to resign because of difficulties administering the new-look scheme, PP has learned.

URS has appointed Buck Consultants to provide its defined benefit pension scheme with advisory and investment consulting services.

Private equity could offer a lucrative opportunity to benefit from China's economic boom, as long as you accept the rules of engagement are very different from the rest of the world. Joseph Mariathasan explains.