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More than 90 responses have been received by the Accounting Standards Board on the discussion paper ‘The Financial Reporting of Pensions'.

INCLUDING: NETHERLANDS - AEGON appointments; GLOBAL - Emerging markets under-represented; UK - Henderson wins £130m FI mandate

The amount needed to secure the deficit of FTSE100 pension schemes in full with an insurer has improved from £200bn to £110bn, a Pension Capital Strategies study shows.

Nearly one-in-five workers saving for retirement are not contributing to a pension, a study shows.

NORDICS - The €215bn (US$338.4bn) ABP fund has taken a minority stake in Norwegian shopping centre company Steen & Strøm.

ASIA - Asian institutional investors do not have access to the same level of asset management service and investment expertise enjoyed by their counterparts in other regions, a study by Greenwich Associates has highlighted.

UK - Extending the adult rate national minimum wage to include 21-year-olds will have a knock-on effect on UK employer pension contributions after 2012, Watson Wyatt has revealed.

THE end of the housing boom has shattered people's confidence about using their home as part of their retirement savings, research reveals.

A new service which frees insolvency practitioners from the liability of being a trustee of an insolvent company's defined contribution scheme has been launched.

TRUSTEES are increasingly turning to derivatives for protection as they become more aware of the risks posed by their liabilities, a study shows.