United Kingdom

UK - The government is to introduce a final salary scheme for doctors and dentists in the armed forces in a bid to resolve staff shortages.

UK - The Department for Work and Pensions wants employers and the financial services industry to help it find ways to educate people on pensions.

UK - Retail giant John Lewis is to retain its £1.2bn final salary pension scheme.

UK - A UK small and mid-cap fund for institutional investors has been launched by Standard Life Investments.

UK - Professional indemnity rule modifications will give IFAs struggling to meet their insurance costs little or no help at all, a consultant claims.

UK - Employers will increasingly choose to wind-up DB schemes rather than closing them to new members unless the government creates effective reform, delegates at the NAPF's autumn conference heard.

UK - Fund managers are damaging their prospects of winning new business by making staff cuts, a leading consultant says.

UK - Standard Life is including an annuities calculator in its group AVC members' pack to show the additional pension each policy will provide.

UK - JP Morgan Fleming Asset Management has lost Shawn Lytle to UBS Global Asset Management.

UK - John Murray has been hired as managing director and head of Deutsche Investment Trust Managers.