United Kingdom

UK - The proposed sale of Scottish Media Group's publishing business may be soured by a deficit in the company's final salary pension scheme, analysts fear.

UK - Private equity investment firm General Atlantic Partners is set to invest £160m in Liberata, making it the pensions administrator's majority shareholder.

UK - IMI Pension Fund trustees have been found guilty of maladministration after they failed to give reasons for refusing an ill-health early retirement request.

UK - Trade union research has named Kingfisher Retirement Trust as the worst example of a defined contribution scheme in terms of benefits received.

UK - Simplification author Alan Pickering has welcomed government moves to pare down pensions regulation and describes them as a "massive step" forward.

UK - Pensions Investment Research Consultants clients are to gain access to enhanced shareholder voting advice on an upgraded website.

UK - Leading industry figures have slammed the Green Paper as a missed opportunity.

UK - Trustees at insolvent schemes in wind-up are being urged to resolve problems over guaranteed minimum pensions by reinstating members into the state second pension.

UK - Friends Provident has launched an online business tracking facility for independent financial advisers.

UK - Pension schemes' internal dispute resolution processes are a "nonsense" and often work to members' disadvantage, the pensions ombudsman says.