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Laurie Edmans has been reappointed as a non-executive director of The Pensions Regulator by work and pensions secretary James Purnell.

THE Pension Protection Fund is to consult on changing assumptions in a bid to bring section 143 and section 179 valuations in line with pricing in the buyout market.

Multi-asset investing has fallen out of favour with pension schemes "for no good reason", Newton Investment Management claims.

West Midlands Pension Fund chief pensions officer Mike Woodall is to retire in September after more than 14 years with the scheme.

Alberta schools and teachers' unions have come to collective agreements to address a $2.1bn pensions shortfall built up prior to 1992.

Bank of Ireland Asset Manage-ment has launched three enhanced cash funds.

Work and pensions secretary James Purnell is to launch a study into the impact of means-tested benefits on personal accounts.

Conservative work and pensions spokesman Chris Grayling has bemoaned the government's failure to tackle red tape in the Pensions Bill. Grayling says the reforms which are currently going through parliament are a "missed opportunity" on deregulation....

Lawyers are urging trustees and sponsors to move quickly and set up contingent assets to combat the "unpredictability" of Pension Protection Fund levy charges.

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