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UK - The number of private sector employees still in open defined benefit (DB) schemes has fallen below the minimum long-term level expected by the Pensions Commission, Watson Wyatt has revealed.

THE Pensions Advisory Service handled a record number of enquiries last year, its annual report reveals.

GLOBAL - The skill sets of fund managers have failed to keep pace with an increasingly sophisticated investment environment, a survey by KPMG has revealed.

UK - Industry figures have offered a luke-warm welcome to The Pensions Regulator's (TPR) wind up guidance.

US - CalPERS and an Alaskan industry plumbing pension fund have reached a settlement agreement with UnitedHeath Group over a class action lawsuit launched in 2006.

In the second Pensions Review, Peter Scales, Terry Faulkner, Alan Pickering and Paul Craven discuss the PPF, Scheme Specific Risk Assessment, hedging, derivatives, the role of the trustee and more.

Chaired by Incisive Media's Lawrence Gosling and including Paternoster business development director Ian Aley, Lucida chief actuary Andrew Stoker, Pensions First partner Timothy Lyons, Legal & General sales development director Hugo James and Watson Wyatt...

US - The US Department of Labor and Delphi Corp., have received permission for the government to recover more than US$2.2m of plan assets for the Delphi Personal Savings Plan for Hourly Employees.

Lehman goes head to head with pension buyout specialists; Personal Account set to fail; Consumers fail to save despite the gloom; Inflation puts pressure on emerging economies

SCHEME funding levels plummeted in June, latest data from Aon and Watson Wyatt reveals.