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Hutton reforms will have both benefits and drawbacks for outsourcing contractors, LCP says.

UK - The Pension Protection Fund will modify how it calculates investment and insolvency risk to ensure a "stable and more predictable" levy for schemes, its chief executive says.

IRELAND/CANADA - The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and other investors will give airline leasing company AWAS an additional $529m to help it expand its fleet.

The Pension Protection Fund will modify how it calculates investment and insolvency risk to ensure a "stable and more predictable" levy for schemes, its chief executive says.

First round voting for the Pensions Personality of the Year 2011 has now closed.

Russell Investments' transition management team saw an uptick of 66% in 2010 in transitions involving overlay strategies as investors looked to manage their exposures to new asset allocations.

NETHERLANDS - KAS Bank has "plenty of deals in the pipeline" in Holland, as pension managers look to be "more in control".

Unions warn of mass strikes over pensions reform; Vital pensions questions unanswered; High-wire act fails to balance public and private; Hutton pension reforms could ‘light the blue touch paper' for a wave of industrial action; Now civil servants and...

Gilt markets will escape unscathed from the abolition of compulsory annuitisation due to the small impact the policy change will have on bulk and individual annuity sales, experts forecast.

UK defined contribution schemes should stop focusing on outperforming markets and start building "next generation" schemes designed around delivering retirement incomes, a Nobel prizewinning economist says.