Mercer

The industry has urged the National Association of Pension Funds to take care when designing its "pounds and pence" charging code to avoid too much focus on low charges.

Mercer has launched a daily funding monitoring service which will allow schemes to check the value of their scheme assets and liabilities daily.

Pension schemes with exposure to LIBOR-related swaps could have lost out as a result of manipulation of the lending rate.

Andrew Short points to the massive consumer potential of India and China

The Pensions Regulator's guidance on defined contribution schemes should have been bolder, the industry warns.

Almost 100 bulk annuity and longevity swap deals worth more than £50m have taken place in the UK since 2007 as part of an international trend, Mercer research says.

Mercer Employee Benefits is to defend itself at the High Court later this year after a hotel group filed a £250,000 claim for breach of contract.

The European Union has endorsed revised accounting standards for schemes which will cut UK firms' reported profits by £10bn and could trigger an increase in de-risking.

An actuarial and consultancy procurement framework for local government pension schemes will launch next month promising "better prices" for schemes.

A recent ruling classing early retirement benefits as the responsibility of the acquiring company in an asset deal will add "cost and uncertainty" to mergers and acquisitions, Mercer says.