United Kingdom

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

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

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.

UK - F&C Investments has merged a number of its key investment teams to form a new investment solutions division and announced three hires to boost its fiduciary offering.

UK - The UK private pension system is "not fit for purpose" and "hugely inefficient", research by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce finds.

UK - Projected costs of enforcing the auto-enrolment regime were redacted from the Making Auto-enrolment Work Review but are substantial, delegates heard.

UK - There is a "real danger" the auto-enrolment regime could be so broad it becomes an unenforceable law, Alan Pickering warns.