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Royal London has signed a deal agreeing terms for the potential takeover of Royal Liver.

The Pensions Regulator has published a five-step guide to help trustees of smaller schemes raise administration standards.

Trustees of the Transport for London Pension Fund have appointed Towers Watson to provide actuarial and investment advice for its £5.5bn defined benefit scheme.

Unilever is to close its £5.5bn UK final salary scheme to existing members due to the fund's "increasingly unaffordable and unsustainable" costs.

Government signs over civil service pensions to private-sector mutual; Teachers in strike threat

Punch Taverns has made additional contributions of £9m into its Spirit and Pubmaster defined benefit schemes over the past six months.

The Alumasc Group has contributed half of the net proceeds of the sale of its subsidiary Alumasc Dispense to its two defined benefit pension schemes, it announced today.

The impact of tighter carbon emissions rules on corporate profits will catch out schemes whose investment strategy on climate change is to "wait and see", Carbon Footprint Investments warns.

CANADA - The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) returned 13.68% in 2010, ending the year with C$35.7bn ($37.3bn) in net assets.

MEXICO - The Principal Group will acquire HSBC's Mexican pension fund business for $198m.