UK - Providers must urgently update their projection models before pensions' deficits reach catastrophic proportions, a leading academic has claimed.

THE MERCHANT Navy Officers' Pension Fund has hired Pensions Investment Research Consultants to provide it with global shareholder voting recommendations and execution services.

UK - Unite, the union representing telent workers, has vowed to keep up pressure on Pension Corporation until it provides assurances on the future of the company's UK pension scheme.

Life expectancy ‘underestimated' by 12 years; Fierce competition leaves DB members exposed; Use of US class action gathers apace; Fund managers raise exit penalties to prevent property collapse

GREECE - Journalists have planned strike action next week because of Conservative plans to reform the country's pension system.

THE BOARD for Actuarial Standards has issued a consultation paper on the underlying framework for the new structure for technical actuarial standards.

UK - The Walker private equity review has "left out" pensions, according to lawyers.

NEARLY half of providers marketing self-invested personal pensions offer a defined link to fund platforms to aid mutual fund trading, according to the Defaqto Retirement Savings & Income Report 2007.

UK - telent's net pension scheme deficit has been reduced by £51m in the past six months, the company's latest results have revealed. The deficit at 30 September amounted to £14m, comprising of a £48m surplus in its UK pension plan and liabilities of...

UK - telent's net pension scheme deficit has been reduced by £51m in the past six months, the company's latest results have revealed.