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INSTITUTIONAL Shareholder Services has launched a global sustainability risk reports database in a bid to help schemes and other investors analyse sustainability related risks.

ADVISERS must not overlook the benefits of trustee investment plans, Winterthur life says.

THE PENSION Service is suspending the provision of state pension forecasts in order to update its IT systems to reflect changes in the Pensions Bill.

THE GOVERNMENT Actuary's Department has withdrawn all "passports" for the Local Government Pension Scheme with retrospective effect - a move lawyers believe is outside its powers.

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MORE then half of independent financial advisers are unsure how recent Financial Services Authority regulation affects self-invested personal pensions, a survey by Merchant Investors shows.

INCREASES in life expectancy assumptions have added £13bn to FTSE350 scheme liabilities over the past year, research by Mercer Human Resource Consulting shows.

Almost two-thirds of people have no idea how much their pensions are worth, research claims.

FIRMS are increasingly looking at alternatives to cash funding as deficits move into surpluses, PricewaterhouseCoopers says.

CHRIS Hitchen has formally been inaugurated as chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds.