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The European Central Bank will dodge quantitative easing to solve the eurozone sovereign debt crisis because its mandate does not allow it, an Aegon fixed income manager says.

DLA Piper's Tamara Calvert looks at issues covered in the DWP's auto-enrolment consultation.

Government assertions that the indexation switch from RPI to CPI was based on Bank of England recommendations are political spin, a former BA trustee says.

A confusing section of the Pensions Bill, which dictates how different employees are treated under auto-enrolment, must be changed before it becomes law, Aon Hewitt warns.

Expecting administrators and trustees to operate a five-day turnaround for transfer value cheques is "totally unrealistic" in many cases, a consultant says.

Making further, deeper changes to public sector pensions is the only way they will ever be fair to taxpayers, Charles Cowling says.

A £650m government loan facility for the National Employment Savings Trust will be "unrecoverable" as the agreement allows the terms of the loan to be renegotiated, a lawyer says.

Section 75 changes have failed to simplify the existing rules and merely added more complexity to employer debt rules, industry figures say.

Pension funds' reaction to last week's market turbulence show governance standards have improved since the 2008 market crash, with many schemes moving to re-risk their portfolios, according to market experts.

US - The ETF market reached $1.4trn at the end of the first half as ETF growth continued, according to BlackRock's Industry Review H1 2011.