United Kingdom

UK - Goldman Sachs has been appointed to carry out a strategic review of beleaguered fund group Gartmore.

UK - Seven Local Government Pension Scheme funds with £9.9bn ($16bn) under management want to establish a framework contract to share actuarial, benefit and investment services to cut costs.

UK - The government has today detailed plans on how the state pension age will rise to 66 by 2020.

UK - BT will reduce its scheme liabilities by £2.9bn ($4.7bn) after the government's decision to use Consumer Prices Index to measure inflation, an actuarial review shows.

UK - Aviva's decision to close its final salary scheme will benefit the company's net asset value by about £275m ($442.6m), figures show.

UK - State Street Corporation has been appointed as fund administrator for the National Employment Savings Trust.

UK - The Life & Longevity Markets Association has unveiled a series of publications on longevity, as part of a drive to further standardise the longevity market and to bring the creation of a longevity market one step closer.

UK - The Pension Protection Fund has recorded a £400m ($641.5m) surplus, compared with a £1.2bn deficit the year before, figures published today reveal.

UK - Active membership in private sector defined benefit schemes declined by 200,000 to 2.4 million in 2009 but remained constant in the public sector, official statistics show.

UK - Employers levelling down scheme provision following the introduction of auto-enrolment will only confirm negative perceptions of pensions, Iain Duncan Smith warns.