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The International Organisation of Pension Supervisors has launched a set of standards to strengthen supervisory techniques in the UK and abroad.

None of the Global Pensions 100 Panel has secured stakes in hedge funds through the secondary markets, our research shows.

Hermes Fund Managers has recruited James Taylor as director of government bonds.

US - The Illinois Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) doled out over $1bn in assets to new domestic equity, private equity and fixed income managers, and hired three new consultants.

The Pensions Regulator is urging the industry to help scheme members make informed decisions about their retirement income.

Hutton favours gradual pension age rise; Auto-enrol pensions attacked by owners of small companies; Nest flouts convention and allows trustees to decide

Employers must formalise their flexible retirement policies ahead of the abolition of the default retirement age or risk breaching age discrimination laws, JLT Benefit Solutions warns.

US - The California State Teachers' Retirement System will discuss implementing an ‘almost radical' new asset allocation that will divide assets into risk buckets, instead of traditional asset classes.

UK - State Street Corporation has been appointed as fund administrator for the National Employment Savings Trust.

NETHERLANDS - Olaf Sleijpen, director of institutional clients at APG is leaving to start a new role at De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) at the start of 2011.