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SMALL bespoke self-invested personal pension providers are at the greatest risk of going out of business as a result of market consolidation, JLT Benefit Solutions says.

WEIR GROUP has agreed to sell off part of its £550m pension scheme to Legal & General.

THE BOARD for Actuarial Standards is set to hold meetings in London and Edinburgh to discuss its proposals for a new framework for technical actuarial standards.

DUBAI PORTS World - the owner of the P&O shipping group -has appointed Paternoster to provide the future pensions for 11,000 retired members of the P&O scheme.

Peter Murray has been elected as the chairman of the Occupational Pensions Defence Union's advisory council.

HM Revenue and Customs has told pension funds to file their 2006/07 scheme returns and event reports by January 31 2008 or risk a penalty.

UNIONS campaigning against BAA's plans to close its final salary pension scheme to new entrants have urged the company to back down.

RANK GROUP is set to transfer its defined benefit pension plan's assets and liabilities to an insurer.

PEARL Group's acquisition of Resolution is expected to be completed by February 2008, shareholder documentation shows.

PRIME MINISTER Gordon Brown is "confident" that he will be able to guarantee 90pc of the pensions of the 125,000 people who lost their retirement funds when their schemes collapsed.