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Trustee boards should consider setting up separate sub-committees made up of member-nominated and company-nominated trustees to help tackle conflicts of interest, Atkin Trustees says.

Fidelity has launched a service it says will reduce employers' cost bases for auto-enrolment by limiting the affect on their HR, payroll and technology departments.

EUROPE - Hedge funds had much of their gains this year wiped out on Friday as half the alternative strategies reporting daily data to Hedge Fund Research's investable indices lost over 1% of their value in just 24 hours.

Top company directors receiving "gold plated" pensions; Markets dive mean pensions loose 4%; Your pension may be worth less than you think; BT pension fund goes green

AUSTRALIA - Milestone Group has launched a new Tax Expense Calculation module for superannuation funds.

The Pensions Action Group supports Lord McFall's conclusions but said its members had already lived by many of his recommendations and still financially lost out.

The average director of a FTSE100 company has a final salary pension worth £3.6m and paying out £174,963 per year, the High Pay Commission says.

Airwave Solutions, a provider of communications to the emergency services, has received the Pension Quality Mark Plus for its group stakeholder pension plan.

The University of Reading has set up a new defined contribution pension scheme with BlackRock ahead of upcoming auto-enrolment obligations.

US - Bill Gross, Bill Miller and Warren Buffett have clashed over Standard & Poor's downgrade of the US' credit rating.