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Fears over an increase in BT Pension Scheme's liability eased in early trading today sending BT share price up to 173p from the close of 167p yesterday.

Professional Pensions is set to publish a Guide to Scheme Investment on September 22.

The £650m Lloyd's Register Superannuation Fund Association is to undertake a wholesale review of its investment strategy and mandates.

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Deloitte has hired Richard Slater and Dave Lyons to help support the firm's aggressive growth plan to treble its pension advisory practice in four years.

AUSTRALIA - Future Fund has posted a return of 12.4% for the financial year ending 30 June, with the fund's assets under management totalling A$75.15bn(US$77.8bn).

The National Association of Pension Funds has appointed Ruston Smith, group pensions and insurable risk director at Tesco, as chairman of its Retirement Policy Council.

US - The Investment Committee of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is to hold a workshop to examine how best to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into the pension fund's investment process.

Pensioners in capped drawdown face significant drops in retirement income because of falling gilt yields affecting the amount that can be drawn from a fund, Rowanmoor Pensions claims.

GLOBAL - Now Europe and the US markets have been put in the ‘too-difficult' basket, managers and allocators have turned attention to Asia, a region some might feel is the world's ‘last man standing'.