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Premier Farnell has set up a 23-year asset-backed funding structure to plug an £18m deficit in its UK scheme.

The National Association of Pension Funds has launched a guide to support trustees in assessing investment managers' stewardship credentials.

Private sector deficits have fallen for the third consecutive month as equity markets bounce back and falling yields slow down, research from the Pension Protection Fund reveals.

Over a third of European defined benefit schemes feel they do not have access to portfolio data which helps them fulfil regulatory requirements, research from State Street reveals.

Almost half (47%) of investors want greater transparency from asset managers on their shareholder voting record, according to research.

The Pensions Regulator has named Andrew Warwick-Thompson as its executive director for defined contribution governance and administration.

Threadneedle Investments has boosted its development team by appointing Abhishek Srivastav as institutional business director.

High and opaque charges are harming savers with defined contribution pension schemes, according to the Financial Services Consumer Panel.

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority has conceded that more impact studies will be necessary before overhauling the Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision directive.

The Environmental Agency Pension Fund has moved £350m into environmental, social and governance strategies as it seeks to invest a quarter of its assets in the ‘green economy' by 2015.