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The Financial Reporting Council has started a consultation which could change the definition of stewardship in the UK.

High frequency trading of pension fund investments is reducing the value of scheme members' pensions, the Railways Pension Trustee Company chief executive says.

The Society of Pension Consultants has backed proposals from the Financial Services Authority to revise assumptions used in transfer value analysis.

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Barclays has bowed to pressure from shareholders before its annual general meeting by putting a new clause into boss Bob Diamond's bonus package which could cut his payout in half.

British Midland Airways' pension scheme is poised to entered into Pension Protection Fund assessment after the parent company Lufthansa agreed to sell the struggling airline to International Airlines Group.

BlackRock managing director and head of client strategy in EMEA Tarik Ben-Saud is set to leave the asset manager to work on reconstruction efforts in the Middle East, PP understands.

Institutional investors have urged EU finance ministers to revise the emission trading scheme to combat the "exceptionally low" price of carbon.

LCP has appointed Metlife director of business development Emma Watkins as principal in its pension buy-out practice.

Aviva Investors chief executive Alain Dromer is set to leave the company under new plans to streamline the business.