UK - Pension analysts remain split over proposed revisions to the Pensions Regulator's clearance guidance.

LIL-LETS workers campaigning for enhanced pension rights after the closure of the firm's Birmingham factory held a demonstration last weekend.

THE ENHANCED Analytics Initiative has appointed Peter Scales as its chairman.

RISKMETRICS has rebranded Institutional Shareholder Services following its takeover of the corporate governance firm earlier this year.

USA - The Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (TRSL) has achieved high growth for the fiscal year 2006-07 with a total return on assets of 19.67%, compared to 14.3% over 2005-06.

RELIANCE on assets such as property and tax-free savings vehicles puts pensioners at risk of running out of money in retirement, State Street Global Advisors warns.

Northern Rock plans fresh push for sale as savers withdraw £2bn; Former Fed chief says era of low inflation is over; ABN chief talks down Barclays; Investment banks report

SOUTH KOREA - Prudential Investment & Securities Co. Ltd (PISC) is to launch a utilities fund for institutional and private investors in the South Korean market, sub-advised by ANB AMRO.

US - The US Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), which acts as a safeguard for underfunded and failing pension funds, has released its strategic plan for the fiscal period 2008-11.

GLOBAL - Most pension funds are failing to actively engage with ‘Generation Y', the generation now in their twenties, found the results of September's Global Pensions 100 Panel.