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ACCOUNTING standards should be changed to reflect future scheme administration costs, PricewaterhouseCoopers urges.

STRIKE action by staff at Independent Television News has been suspended after union officials claimed there had been "significant improvements" to pension scheme proposals.

Schemes and sponsors should not fool themselves that accounting standard FRS17 gives a true value of liabilities, actuaries warn.

THE NATIONAL Association of Pension Funds is set to transfer its historical records to The Pensions Archive Trust.

ADMINISTRATION costs for London council pension funds are nearly four times higher than other metropolitan authorities, a new report reveals.

THE FACULTY of Actuaries will report to members at the end of January on its plans to merge with the Institute of Actuaries.

The pensions industry needs to simplify and modernise its language if it is to restore the public's faith in retirement savings, a new study claims.

A petition by over-50s financial services firm Saga calling for the restoration of scheme wind-up victims' pensions has been signed by over 7000 people.

Schemes and sponsors should not fool themselves that accounting standard FRS17 gives a true value of liabilities, actuaries warn.

PENSION scheme deficits in the FTSE350 companies dropped by nearly a third in 2006, research by Mercer HR Consulting shows.