BESTrustees has appointed Rachel Tranter and Zahir Fazal as directors.
A department for work and pensions research report on the likely responses of small employers to personal accounts is not "happy reading", a lawyer warns.
Enrich has launched a pensions service to provide employers with strategic direction for the review, implementation and management of their pension plan.
GERMANY - Hewitt Associates has completed the merger of its German businesses.
US - TIAA-CREF has sold its stake in four Asian oil and gas firms with business operations in Sudan.
US - The recovery in equity markets last year helped to improve the funded status of US pension funds, adding an estimated US$180bn to balance sheets, according to a leading pensions' consultancy.
NETHERLANDS - Pension fund manager Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW) has halved its planned pension increase in 2010 and increased contributions for the coming year.
US/UK - PIMCO is reducing its holdings of UK and US government bonds because of fears over increased borrowing and the withdrawal of quantitative easing programmes.
PIMCO is reducing its holdings of UK and US government bonds because of fears over increased borrowing and the withdrawal of quantitative easing programmes.