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Professional Pensions will be hosting a two day investment conference on June 3-4, 2009 at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London.

US - The Church Pension Group (CPG) which provides retirement benefits for members of the Episcopal Church, said assets fell by 18.8% in 2008.

DENMARK- PFA Pension has acquired Nordic Asset Management in a bid to manage money for institutional investors outside of its existing client base.

US - AllianceBernstein said it cut more than 200 jobs in the first quarter, with more cuts to come, in a bid to reduce costs.

A group of major institutional investors has written to the prime minister urging the G20 to support a strong green element in programmes of fiscal stimulus.

AWD Chase de Vere Consulting has launched an online service to provide employees with forecasts for both their state and occupational pensions.

Now taxpayers bail out MPs' pensions; Myners under fire for his account of Goodwin's £16m RBS pension; 100th pension in protection fund

BNP Paribas global head of pensions Antony Osborn-Barker, has been appointed to the board of the Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurance Board.

Any increase in taxpayer contributions to MPs defined benefit pensions would be a "spectacular own-goal", the Liberal Democrats say.

The Brooks Service Group pension scheme has transferred into the Pension Protection Fund bringing the total number of schemes to 100.