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Risk Management Solutions has launched a medical-based approach to quantifying longevity risk that takes account of changing mortality phases.

UK/EUROPE/US - Risk Management Solutions has launched a medical-based approach to quantifying longevity risk that takes account of changing mortality phases.

Trustees must act now to improve data quality, using the Pension Regulator's 2012 deadline for better standards of record keeping as an incentive, MetLife Assurance says.

The trustee of the BT Pension Scheme is seeking a High Court ruling on the scope and extent of the Crown Guarantee, which could force the government to support its £9bn deficit in the event of insolvency.

Aon Consulting and Hewitt Associates are to merge to form a new consultancy in a $4.9bn (£3.3bn) deal.

GLOBAL - Aon Consulting and Hewitt Associates are to merge to form a new consultancy in a $4.9bn deal.

Scheme allocations to alternative assets have increased almost three-fold over the past 10 years, Towers Watson research reveals.

GLOBAL - Scheme allocations to alternative assets have increased almost three-fold over the past 10 years, Towers Watson research has revealed.

BRAZIL - Brazilian state pension funds Funcef, Petrus and Previ will have a stake in the Belo Monte hydropower dam that will be built in the Amazon, an official with the state-run electricity company said.

GLOBAL - Pension funds and other institutional investors could plough more than $200bn into worldwide property markets over the next five years, Invesco Real Estate has predicted.