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Employers should be looking to get regular feedback from members to ensure flexible benefits packages remain relevant.

Trustees must "mind the gap" between the sponsoring employer and scheme members, delegates heard.

The pension fund industry is behind other sectors in data protection compliance, Wragge & Co says.

The Bank of England would like to see more uptake of index linked gilts by institutional investors, but appetite for the paper does not seem to be there.

UK - Senior correspondent Giovanni Legorano speaks to Steve Delo former chairman of the Pensions Management Institute/Independent Trustee, PAN Governance and Michael Chatterton, head of settlement solutions at Watson Wyatt.

A large number of businesses have been forced to scrap restructuring plans because of the section 75 employer debt regime, delegates heard.

EUROPE - European fund managers broke with global trends and switched into defensive stocks in recent weeks, according to Bank of America's (BofA) latest fund manager survey.

US - The Maryland State Retirement and Pension System has issued a request for information for specialist private equity and real estate consultants.

FRANCE - The Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites (FRR) has hired six firms to run a combined €4bn (US$5.9bn) in inflation-linked bond mandates.

UK - Trustees and sponsor companies should look at the company's defined benefit scheme as if it were a subsidiary of the sponsor company, Watson Wyatt head of settlement solutions Michael Chatterton said.