Employee Benefits

UK - Fund managers are being urged to revamp their member-communications packages to make them more flexible and relevant to individual DC schemes.

UK - Schemes could increase their appeal to members if they offered more flexible DC packages, MNPA claims.

UK - Engineering company GKN looks set to increase contributions from £18m to £20m into its ailing £1.5bn pension fund this year.

UK - Brewing firm Interbrew - best known for its Stella Artois brand - has appointed youatwork to offer employee benefits services to its 3100 UK staff.

UK - Fears over mass closures of DB pension schemes are exaggerated, a new Jardine Lloyd Thompson survey shows.

GERMANY - Mercer Human Resource Consulting is to acquire the actuarial unit of KPMG in Germany for an undisclosed sum.

UK - The UK Government has published, to general industry disappointment, its Green Paper and Tax Simplification proposals in response to the Pickering and Sandler reports published in summer 2002.

UK - The organisers of The Pension Show are delighted to announce that due to popular demand, the one-day Forum on Pension Scheme Administration will return to the Business Design Centre, Islington, London, on 30 April.

UK - Anxiety over pensions is reducing workers' commitment to their firms, Aon Consulting claims.

UK - Consultants have accused the government of "ducking" the complex issues facing the pensions industry.