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US - The aggregate deficit in pension plans sponsored by S&P 1500 companies decreased by $14bn during February, figures from Mercer show.

Bluefin chief executive Nick Burns talks to Jenna Towler about the revolution about to hit the corporate benefits industry and his predictions for the future of workplace saving

Standard Life has announced computer giant IBM as the first client for its corporate wrap platform.

Listen to our latest Pensions Conjecture debate on Fiduciary Management.

Syntrus Achmea; Texas Municipal Retirement System; SRL Global; BNP Paribas Investment Partners; ING Investment Management; Mercer; TAN-EU Capital; Pictet Asset Management

HONG KONG - Government plans to provide an extra HK$24bn ($3.1bn) for Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) members may miss an important opportunity to stimulate retirement savings, Mercer believes.

Mercer senior consultant Rosie Kwok gives us the background for this month's discussion. The government has confirmed that the default retirement age (DRA) will be phased out completely by the end of September 2011. This change in employment law does...

Employee benefit consultants are finding it difficult to recommend the National Employment Savings Trust to clients because of its lack of track record.

The former head of multi-manager at F&C, Dean Cheeseman, has joined Mercer as an equity portfolio manager within its investment management business.

Chris Panteli looks at the range of alternatives trustees are turning to as a result