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GLOBAL - A global consortium of pension asset managers including USS, APG and PGGM has convinced the world's largest property managers to disclose detailed data on the environmental performance of their funds for the first time.

Complications associated with the changes to the contracting-out regime should trigger scheme sponsors into reviewing their benefits they want to offer, a consultant says.

US - Brian Guthrie has been bumped up to the executive director role of the $105bn Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS).

Aegon's asset management capabilities in the UK has officially been re-branded as Kames Capital today.

The £2.6bn Cheshire Pension Fund has joined the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum in a bid to tackle corporate governance in conjunction with other schemes.

CANADA/JAPAN - The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and Global Logistic Properties (GLP) have formed a joint venture to invest in the country's logistics network.

Broadcaster STV has shaved £5m from its projected scheme liabilities with an innovative mortality research exercise that reduced life expectancy assumptions by 1.2 years.

Mortality assumption calculations need a radical overhaul to give schemes and capital markets a better understanding of the factors that affect them, a report argues.

There is just over one week left to submit your entry for Art of Pensions 2011.

The Pensions Administration Standards Association has elected Lucida operations director Margaret Snowdon as its chairman for the next three years.