Europe

UK - State pension provision must be revamped to take pressure off occupational pensions, Pensions Reform Group chairman Frank Field claims.

UK - State and private pensions are both at risk without fundamental reform, the Adam Smith Institute predicts.

UK/AUSTRALIA - Professor Tim Congdon and Helen Martin have been appointed as honorary fellows of the Institute of Actuaries.

UK/EU - Employers which close final salary schemes to new staff face age discrimination claims in years to come, pensions lawyers warn.

UK - Former employees of defunct ship repairer Cammell Laird are launching a legal battle to win £500,000 in unpaid pensions.

UK - SG Asset Management has put in a bid to buy Rothschild Asset Management which currently runs £13bn worth of funds.

UK - Inefficient final salary scheme wind-ups have cost members hundreds of millions of pounds in benefits, research by HighamNobbs Consulting shows.

UK/EU - Employers which close final salary schemes to new staff face age discrimination claims in years to come, pensions lawyers warn.

ITALY - Scottish Widows Investment Partnership has launched its SRI products to the Italian institutional market following their success in Sweden.

UK - Lane Clark & Peacock is running a one-day conference on issues relating to defined benefit scheme closures.