Europe

UK - The government has announced it will introduce legislation in the Finance Bill 2011 to reduce the annual allowance from £255,000 ($402,000) to £50,000 and the lifetime allowance from £1.8m to £1.5m.

UK - Lord Myners has branded advice to increase scheme fixed income allocations as "nonsense" and warned the bond market is an "enormous bubble which will burst".

UK - Henderson Global Investors plans to merge its £3.3bn ($5.2bn) Liquid Assets Fund into the money market fund range of DB Advisors over regulatory concerns.

As the UK puts a comprehensive set of pension reforms into motion, Helen Morrissey questions how prepared the industry will be to cope with the pace of change

The austerity measures that swept through Europe in 2010 took their toll on pension systems. Richard Lowe reports

The Danish Financial Supervisory Authority plans to release mortality benchmarks which will be used to help calculate pension liabilities.

UK - The Pensions Regulator should be more accountable and promote high-quality workplace pensions, trustees and scheme managers believe.

The Global Pensions 100 Panel is split over the fate of the eurozone, our survey found.

US/UK - UK and US defined benefit plans agree measuring liabilities is the most pressing risk factor affecting schemes, but they take drastically different views on most other risk factors, a new study shows.

UK - An industry-wide consultation on the RPI to CPI switch will be issued tomorrow, Steve Webb says.