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Flexible benefit platforms and corporate wraps have been touted as key ways to engage employees with their pensions.

CANADA/US - Canada Pension Plan Investment Board CPPIB) has entered a joint venture with General Growth Properties to acquire a stake in two US shopping malls.

Defined contribution investors need to look at their portfolios from a risk perspective akin to defined benefit schemes, delegates heard.

There is little hope government will not legislate to deal with the problem of guaranteed minimum pension equalisation, delegates heard.

IRELAND - The Government's controversial pensions levy has had a "devastating impact" on the country's pension system, Irish Life & Permanent chief executive, retail, Gerry Hassett has claimed.

Standard Life has launched a master trust arrangement as an extension of its trust-based bundled defined contribution offering with Pitmans Trustees as trustee.

UK - Fidelity has appointed Paras Anand and Richard Lewis to head up its pan-European and global equities divisions.

JLT Investment Consulting has hired a head of manager research and head of development in a significant expansion of its London-based team.

Professional Pensions is holding a live Conjecture debate on auto-enrolment at 11am on 28 September.

TPR chief executive Bill Galvin tells PP what the industry needs to do ahead of the 2012 pension reforms.