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The Zurich defined benefit pension scheme has launched an online self-service quotation and straight through processing facility for all its members.

The trustees of the Bemis Swansea Limited Pension Plan have appointed Quantum Advisory to provide administration, actuarial, consultancy and investment services.

Personal Accounts Delivery Authority investment director Mark Fawcett has been confirmed as one of the keynote speakers at the forthcoming Professional Pensions Investment Conference .

NETHERLANDS - Aon Consulting has called for a joint initiative which would see Dutch consultants engaging in talks with pension regulator De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) over pension funds' recovery plans.

BT faces doubling of pension fund bill

Government plans to sell off Royal Mail pension scheme assets is "absolutely the wrong thing to do", a former Downing Street pensions adviser says.

Institutional money ready to go; Personal accounts: employers cool on UK pensions scheme; Fresh thinking key for new pension; Hedge fund cuts fees for investors; Royal Mail pensions 'could cost £12bn'

Agency workers should be allowed to opt-out of auto-enrolment for three year periods to cut "severe" administrative costs, the British Chambers of Commerce says.

Around 80% of employers intend to keep their existing pension scheme in place with only 2% planning on offering a pure personal accounts option, Punter Southall research reveals.

The number of FTSE100 companies with total pension liabilities greater than their market capitalisation has more than doubled over the past year, Pension Capital Strategies research reveals.