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The Pensions Management Institute and Mercer will offer a joint service providing information and support around discontinuing schemes.

The £1.4bn Akzo Nobel longevity swap completed last week is predicted to be the first in a wave of transactions in 2012 and 2013.

The Actuarial Profession's Continuous Mortality Investigation suggests schemes must hold 10% more assets per pound of benefit promised for managers than for lower paid employees, Mercer says.

Equity allocations by UK schemes have dropped from 47% to 43%, with a further four in ten schemes intending to reduce their deomstic exposure more next year, Mercer research suggests.

Revised IAS19 measures will remove perceived barriers to de-risking and make companies focus more on the discount rate used to measure scheme liabilities, says Mercer.

Insurers have started to turn down employers who want to expand existing schemes for auto-enrolment, PP has learned.

IAS19 amendments are set to be approved by the EU within months. Here are five areas for sponsors to consider ahead of the changes.

Here they are - the winners of the UK Pensions Awards 2012.

Can schemes find respite in the cash stockpiles of their sponsors?

Conventional gilt holdings for local government pension schemes increased by £441m last year as rising prices and increased allocations boosted the value held by the LGPS, figures show.