Cookson has increased its UK pensions surplus as an ongoing enhanced transfer value exercise and inflation index switch boosted funding levels by more than £13m.
The Royal Bank of Scotland has confirmed a £3.5bn shortfall in its pension scheme after recording actuarial losses of £581m this year.
BAA Airports pension scheme has moved into surplus after receiving a £26m boost from switching indexation measures.
AMEC has seen its pension surplus halve as a falling discount contributed to actuarial losses of £71m for its UK scheme.
Spectris has slashed the deficit of its UK defined benefit scheme by almost two-thirds through a mixture of deficit contributions and an enhanced transfer value exercise.
Falling discount rates have pushed Diageo's pension deficit up by almost a quarter to more than £1bn.
Chemring has contributed more than £27m in contingent assets to its pension fund and opened a consultation to close the scheme to existing members.
Over half a billion pounds in contributions set to plug the Kodak Pension Plan deficit are under threat after the firm backing the scheme went bankrupt.
New Zealand's experience with auto-enrolment shows employers and employees tend to contribute at the minimum rate set by legislation, according to a report.
Dixons Retail has made the initial contributions of a ten-year recovery plan to address its £219m pension shortfall.