Admin / Technology

UK - An Association of Member Nominated Trustees and Directors is set to be launched this year in response to growing demand within the industry.

GLOBAL - Aon Hewitt will deliver cost savings of $355m (£235m) a year through cuts in both back and front office operations, Aon Corporation has said.

Trustees must act now to improve data quality, using the Pension Regulator's 2012 deadline for better standards of record keeping as an incentive, MetLife Assurance says.

UK - Xafinity has bought PricewaterhouseCoopers' scheme actuary, pensions administration and investment consulting business for an undisclosed sum.

The level of complaints received by The Pensions Advisory Service should be used as a key benchmark for data and administration standards, Independent Transition Management says.

As more administrators adopt straight-through processing, Laura Blows explores STP's growing importance and how best to implement the process

Heinz has appointed Capita Hartshead to provide administration, secretarial, treasury and finance services for its five UK pension schemes.

Corporate wraps will soon hit the UK workplace savings industry. Laura Blows explores how these are developing and the effect these corporate platforms may have

Global defence, security and aerospace company, BAE Systems has appointed Xafinity Paymaster to provide third party administration services across five of its pension schemes.

JLT Benefit Solutions has broadened the accessibility of its BenPal pension modeller for use on the iPhone and iPod Touch.