News
Defined Contribution
The Department for Work and Pensions is set to take action to stop firms using differences between defined contribution regulations to cut scheme costs.
25 January 2011
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Industry
Accrued benefits for deferred occupational scheme members will have plummeted 20% by retirement if schemes use Consumer Price Index inflation to uprate benefits, research finds.
25 January 2011
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Industry
Greater Manchester Pension Fund will increase employer contributions by 1.4 percentage points after its funding level dropped from 100% to 96.4% following its triennial valuation.
25 January 2011
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Defined Benefit
The Pension Protection Fund has released a second consultation on the thorny subject of guaranteed minimum pension equalisation.
25 January 2011
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Press
Teachers hold strike vote in pension row; Teaching union ATL to ballot members over strike action; Top firms in line for £15bn pensions windfall, survey shows
25 January 2011
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Defined Benefit
Changes to defined benefit indexation have saved FTSE100 schemes more than £15bn, Towers Watson estimates.
25 January 2011
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Appointments
Former Pensions Management Institute vice-president Brian Critchell has joined the board of PAN Governance.
25 January 2011
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Industry
Friends Provident's Trevor Matthews is to step down as chief executive and hand over the reins to former Scottish Widows chief Andy Briggs.
25 January 2011
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Emerging Markets
Nomura Asset Management plans to launch an emerging market small-cap strategy that will determine holdings according to a country's gross domestic product adjusted for purchasing power parity.
24 January 2011
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Emerging Markets
GLOBAL - Nomura Asset Management plans to launch an emerging market small-cap strategy that will determine holdings according to a country's gross domestic product adjusted for purchasing power parity.
24 January 2011
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