Admin / Technology

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.

Trustees of the Renishaw Pension Fund have appointed Barnett Waddingham to administer its defined benefit corporate pension scheme.

The Pensions Trust has appointed Independent Transition Management to implement analysis software to identify any data errors and risks.

NORWAY - Norges Bank has appointed State Street Corporation to provide fund administration services for the real estate portion of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund.

ITALY - State Street Corp. has completed its €1.28bn (US$1.6bn) cash purchase of Intesa Sanpaolo's Securities Services business (ISPSS), including the firm's custody and fund administration units.

Emma Dunkley talks to Zurich Financial Services head of UK pensions Gillian Mitchell about simplifying administration for a more efficient and member-friendly process

Pension managers are split over whether schemes need an alternative to the service level agreements currently used by the vast majority of funds to measure the performance of their administrators.