UK - Towers Watson has expanded its sustainable investment team with a senior hire from Mercer.
Liberty International has insured its defined benefit pension scheme liabilities with Pension Insurance Corporation in a £61m deal.
The strongest companies could see their Pension Protection Fund levy triple because of uncertainty around how their failure scores are calculated, Mercer warns.
The warnings have been coming for some time.
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Nissan Motors has appointed Mercer as global retirement consultant in a bid to strengthen its pensions governance structures.
GLOBAL - Nissan Motors has appointed Mercer as global retirement consultant in a bid to strengthen its pensions governance structures.
Apache and FirstGroup have outsourced their pension investment decision making to Mercer's implemented consulting practice.
US - The recovery in equity markets last year helped to improve the funded status of US pension funds, adding an estimated US$180bn to balance sheets, according to a leading pensions' consultancy.