United Kingdom

UK - Users of the government's interactive pensions digital television service have given it their overwhelming approval, the department for work and pensions claims.

UK - Actuary and consultant Barnett Waddingham is to hold a number of seminars around the UK on the pensions protection fund.

UK - Trustees will get new powers to change scheme rules without employer consent when a government clampdown on discrimination of disabled workers takes effect.

UK - Over 20 schemes have invested in Schroder Property Investment Management's Hercules Unit Trust fund since January.

UK - A consumer watchdog has warned water companies they cannot raise prices excessively to plug scheme deficits.

UK - State Street Corporation has named Jon Wrigley as vice president and head of taxation services.

SCOTLAND- Mercer Human Resource Consulting is to show Scottish employers how to move from defined benefit to defined contribution pension provision.

UK - Trustees of the £1.2bn BAA Pension Scheme are considering making an allocation to either hedge funds or private equity.

UK - OPRA has updated rules for trustees, advisers and insolvency practitioners overseeing the wind-up of occupational schemes.

UK - A seminar on private equity is being held by HarbourVest Partners on September 18.