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US - Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is to launch an investigation into how financial institutions handle the state pension's investments.

The Labour Party has switched to using the Consumer Prices Index for uprating its own pension scheme despite repeatedly attacking the government for making the change possible.

The European Parliament has backed calls for the implementation of Solvency II to be delayed until 2014, a year later than planned.

Here they are - the complete set of shortlists for this year's Pension Scheme of the Year Awards.

UK - Cash-strapped employers intent on closing their defined benefit schemes entirely should rethink their plans as alternative strategies could save them money, Aon Hewitt says.

The Professional Pensions Show 2011 will include a investment leaders' roundtable made up of five of the investment industry's most influential figures.

Defined benefit scheme closures driven by the end of the contracting out is a price worth paying to ensure a simple single tier state pension, a leading commentator says.

Pension funds take a risk on catastrophe; £3000 a year to keep gold plated public sector pensions; UK retirement age law put in doubt; Bond investors search for answers in US debt crisis

JAPAN - Japan's corporate pension funds have twice as much money entrusted to pooled accounts run by life companies and trust banks as they have under mandates awarded to asset managers, research shows.

Here are the key figures from today's announcement on the increases to employee public sector pension contributions.