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Consultants have been accused of using an "accounting trick" to overstate the performance of alternative investments by about £5.1bn over the past decade across Local Government Pension Schemes (LGPS).

Pan Trustees has made its Federated Pension Plan available to all sponsors of legacy defined benefit (DB) pension schemes.

Equiniti's Sarah Holdstock (pictured) has been appointed head of pensions administration by MyCSP.

Matthew Harrison (pictured) has been appointed managing director by Lincoln Pensions and will take up his post from December.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has hired Fred Berry for the newly created role of lead investment consultant.

Madeline Forrester has been appointed to head MFS Investment Management's institutional business in the UK.

Capita Employee Benefits has hired three senior actuaries from Towers Watson as it looks grows its actuarial, investment and defined benefits practice.

More than a third of employers are witnessing increasing absence levels because staff are struggling to balance caring responsibilities with work.

Capital requirements could be reinserted in the proposed Institutional and Occupational Retirement Provisions (IORP) II Directive, warns PensionsEurope.

Members could be losing money because administrators are taking longer to process defined benefit (DB) pension scheme transfers, according to experts.