United Kingdom

UK - The plight of scheme members who lost their pensions when their firms collapsed spurred the government to protect others, pensions minister Malcolm Wicks.

UK - More than 160 scheme members who lost their pensions when their firms collapsed lobbied MPs during the second reading of the Pensions Bill on Tuesday.

UK - Anglian Water staff are being balloted on strike action over company plans to strip outsourced workers of their final salary pensions.

UK - Independent financial advisers which have disbanded their pension review teams may have done so too hastily, Jardine Lloyd Thompson warns.

UK - Failure to keep membership records up-to-date is exposing 80% of schemes to breaches of the Data Protection Act, a news report claims.

UK - Members will quit the Local Government Pension Scheme rather than pay proposed contribution increases, unions warn.

UK - The £6bn Strathclyde Pension Fund and the £3.5bn Prudential Staff Pension Scheme are mulling investments in alternatives.

UK - Schemes will be able to set their own asset allocation for balanced mandates with Britannic Asset Management from April.

UK - The fate of more than 500 shipbuilders' pensions is hanging in the balance following the sale of Appledore Shipbuilding.

UK - An index showing the effect of corporate governance on UK companies' stock market returns is to be published for the first time.