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UK - Powers given to the new government regulator of the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) should be restricted to prevent a further shift away from final salary pension provision, warns Mercer Human Resource Consulting.

UK - The Society of Pension Consultants is holding a roundtable meeting on scheme governance on June 22.

UK - Around 100 scheme members who lost pension savings when their firms collapsed, marched on Downing Street on Saturday - despite the government's £400m offer of help.

UK - Watson Wyatt released a four-year track record of its manager research performance in which all 13-model portfolios outperformed their benchmark.

UK - Hymans Robertson is scrapping its The Big 50 overview of institutional fund managers as it feels it is no longer relevant.

UK - Companies can resume their pensions planning with certainty, Scottish Life head of pensions Steve Bee claims.

UK - Technology provider 1st has been selected as the supplier of choice for the high net worth financial planning business of broking firm,THINC.

UK - Hedge fund specialist Man Group has posted record sales of $11.5bn (£6.4bn) for the year ending March 31.

UK - Pension lawyers have attacked the government's £400m compensation package for scheme members who have lost savings when their firms collapsed as a "cost neutral" stunt.

UK - Take-up rates for occupational pension schemes are plummeting, a new survey shows.