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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.

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

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.