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Mercer has hired a key employee from the National Employment Savings Trust as a senior consultant in its governance and trustee services group.

Professional Pensions assembled a panel of three industry experts to talk about the key issues facing the global economy over the coming 12 months.

Government has launched a consultation into increasing employee contribution rates for the local government pension scheme in a bid to save £900m.

Members of Lloyds TSB Pension Funds are demanding to know whether the £4bn partnership created to plug the schemes' deficits was used to offload "toxic assets".

Labour has made a final attempt to change the government's reforms of women's state pensions.

GLOBAL - The Investment Company Institute (ICI) has launched ICI Global, a London-based trade association focused exclusively on globally active funds - including regulated US and non US funds.

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UK - Shareholder activism has been trivialised and dismissed by policymakers, delegates at a responsible investment conference heard yesterday.

Rachel Reeves has been promoted to shadow chief secretary for the Treasury in the Labour cabinet reshuffle but her replacement in the pensions brief has not been announced.

NETHERLANDS/UK - PGGM is in advanced negotiations with Barclays Capital to acquire its majority stake in University Partnerships Programme, the UK's largest developer of university campuses, according to reports.