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Bristol-based Trigon Pensions is running a free seminar called Risk management within an investment strategy on November 30.

Barnett Waddingham is to adopt straight-through processing for all pension transactions early next year.

The Investment Governance Group has set out a framework to help defined contribution pension schemes improve investment decision making and scheme governance.

Demographic changes, the ongoing pensions crisis and increasing regulation are the main challenges facing the global real estate market, delegates heard.

Using consumer prices as an inflation measure in the future could make social housing an attractive investment proposition, a fund manager says.

Defined benefit sponsors will welcome the International Accounting Standards Board's changes to IAS19, but will take a hit to profits in the first year, Price­waterhouseCoopers says.

Cross-border passporting of schemes should be allowed between EU countries with similar social and labour law and pension systems, the Society of Pension Consultants says.

The £1.4bn Superannuation Arrangements of the University of London pension fund is looking at changing its benefits structure, PP has learned.

Unions are threatening a "major industrial dispute" if planned changes to the Universities Superannuation scheme go ahead.

Unions are calling for an increase in defined contribution pension provision for National Express bus drivers to compare with drivers enrolled in the firm's final salary scheme.