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Schemes are using investment outperformance to cut employer contributions by as much as 30% over the next decade, as low discount rates continue to inflate liabilities.

Roche Products Pension Trust Limited has appointed Mercer as the fiduciary manager for the pharmaceutical firm's £500m UK defined benefit scheme.

Pensions remain the most popular form of workplace saving, but employers must offer more options to engage younger workers, according to Mercer research.

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Mercer has been appointed by the Merseyside Pension Fund to advise on the manager selection process for a passive investment mandate of up to £1.5bn.

Self-administered trusts used for non-academic university staff are using a 45 basis point spread on discount rate assumptions for different schemes, potentially adding millions to liabilities.

The NAPF's proposed coded of conduct on charges has split the industry reports Rachel Dalton

Schemes using liability-driven investment strategies could have misjudged their swap contract costs for more than four years due to the LIBOR manipulation scandal.