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THE Pensions Regulator has published an analysis of recovery plan data in a bid to reveal the extent to which trustees and employers have embraced the scheme funding regime.

TELENT, the rump of the former GEC conglomerate that became Marconi, has agreed to a £400m takeover by a subsidiary of Guernsey-based Pension Corporation.

APPOINTING directors with business failures behind them could jeopardise levy savings for companies which pay into the Pension Protection Fund, Aon Consulting warns.

AON Consulting is to hold a series of seminars focussed on the Pension Protection Fund levy.

The Scottish National Party has accused prime minister Gordon Brown of "simply spinning" over pension change during his speech at the Labour Party conference.

CAPITA Hartshead has bought Aspen Actuaries & Pension Consultants for an undisclosed sum only three weeks after taking over Higham Dunnett Shaw.

UNITE has attacked Standard Life over its interest in gatecrashing the £8bn merger of Resolution and Friends Provident.

THE NATIONAL Association of Pension Funds has hired Alan Chart as a policy adviser specialising in regulation and Mark Brooks as head of press.

EUROPEAN business school EDHEC has created a new research chair in partnership with AXA Investment Managers to investigate the subject of regulation and institutional investment

MEMBERS of the Pensions Action Group will protest at the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth tomorrow.