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UK - Inalytics has announced the launch of a new service for pension funds to analyse fund managers operating in the 130/30 space.

MERCER has restructured its investment consulting and investment management teams in a bid to increase business.

Sovency II measures threatens DB schemes; Schemes facing difficulties recruiting trustees; DC plans could do better; RAB's Special Situation Fund expects to reap Asian reward

THE government will to amend the Pensions Bill 2007 to allow automatic enrolment into workplace personal pensions from 2012.

RAILPEN INVESTMENTS has published a governance policy for its Hong Kong investments.

MERCER has appointed Brian Henderson as a principal and senior investment consultant in its Edinburgh office.

NAPF and CBU call on The Pensions Regulator to scrap mortality assumption proposals; Brussels boosts pension regime plans; Prudential eyes Equitable Life with-profits fund; Pension information packs fail to meet regulator requirements

CAPITAL CRANFIELD has hired Robert Matthews and Edward Dowler in a bid to expand its business.

UK - The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) and industry have raised concern about the use of new mortality assumptions for defined benefit (DB) schemes, with the NAPF claiming the move is "one step too far".

Proposals to include mortality assumptions as a new trigger for funding plans are "one step too far", The National Association of Pension Funds says