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BUCK CONSULTANTS has hired Chris Evans as a senior consultant in its health and welfare team.

INCLUDING: US - AIG names senior vice president; UK - Buck Consultants appoints Chris Evans; GERMANY - Heidelberg Pension Trust chooses currency management; UK - B&CE Benefit Schemes appoints Frank McCann

UK - New trends in longevity have forced actuaries to reassess mortality patterns, which may have wide ranging consequences for pension policy, an academic has claimed.

Thomsons Online Benefits had taken over the administration of VT Group's flexible benefits scheme.

Elizabeth Pfeuti seeks to define the term 'alternative' and examines the increasing role played by non-mainstream asset classes in pension fund portfolios

UK - Around 10% of private sector workers would be willing to take a pay cut to work in the public sector in order to secure the benefits of a final salary pension scheme, research has found.

Keren Holland talks to Darren McShane of the Mandatory Provident Fund Authority (MPFA) about the Authority's agenda for change

THE aggregate funding position of the 7800 defined benefit schemes monitored by the Pension Protection Fund has improved for the second month running, figures show.

As corporate culture and business structure at asset management firms come under increasing scrutiny, "boutique" seems to have become a byword for best practice. Jenny Blinch reports

UK - The aggregate funding position of pension funds improved by £23.1bn (US$45.6bn) in May but was still down on the same time last year.