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Financial Services Authority guidance on incentive exercises such as ETVs needs to be strengthened and made a legal requirement, Aon Hewitt believes.

GLOBAL - Have you missed the biggest stories in pensions this week? Find out below, as we list the top 10 most popular stories on www.globalpensions.com over the past seven days.

The Royal Mail's £10.3bn pensions deficit will be taken on by the tax-payer next spring as legislation to privatise the service is expected to become law next week.

UK - Standard Life has appointed Paul Matthews as chief executive of its UK business.

EUROPE - Tension between the European Central Bank and the German government has intensified as Jean-Claude Trichet hit back at the German finance minister's claims Greek government bondholders should contribute to a new aid programme.

US - New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo has introduced pension reform legislation that would impose a new Tier VI for future employees and save taxpayers $93bn over the next 30 years.

Here it is. The Pensions Regulator's five-step checklist for trustees of what they might need to do to ensure that their scheme is ready to be used for automatic enrolment.

The Pensions Regulator has urged trustees to ensure schemes are compliant with data protection principles after concerns were raised over ‘mixing' scheme and sponsor data.

DCisions has appointed a product development manager to spearhead the development and marketing of the firm's expanding range of products.

US - More than two dozen major institutional investors, collectively managing $1trn in assets, have asked the Russell 1000 companies to actively embrace the "new reality" of ESG risks.