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Scottish Life has scooped two prestigious pension awards at the eighth annual Gold Standard awards.

Pension funds could be ditching responsible investing principles in their relentless hunt to get higher returns from their asset managers, Kas Bank warns.

Life Academy and Oddfellows have joined forces to work more effectively for people approaching and in retirement.

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JAPAN - The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the largest public pension fund in the world, returned 1.53% on its investments in the second quarter of fiscal 2010.

DENMARK - Danish pension fund ATP has set up a venture fund to target domestic and Nordic IT and telecommunications companies.

IRELAND - The Irish government plans to use assets from the €24bn ($32bn) National Pensions Reserve Fund (NPRF) to support the government bond market and infrastructure investment, the National Recovery Report has confirmed.

UK/US/CANADA - The Pensions Regulator is expected to argue in the High Court today that a liability that flows from a financial support direction should be treated as an administration expense.

DENMARK - The Danish Financial Supervisory Authority plans to release mortality benchmarks in the coming days which will be used to help calculate pension liabilities.

The trustee of the £80m Scapa Group retirement benefit schemes has appointed Mercer to provide implemented investment services to address funding volatility.