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The California Public Employees' Retirement System has unveiled two customer service enhancements for its members.

Nearly half of FTSE100 companies with defined benefit pensions changed their mortality assumptions last year, research by Watson Wyatt shows.

Tax chiefs have won a High Court battle over a "sham" pension scheme transfer.

Professional Pensions will be moving to Incisive Media's head office at Haymarket House, 28-29 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4RX on February 22.

Laurie Edmans has been reappointed as a non-executive director of The Pensions Regulator by work and pensions secretary James Purnell.

UK - The announcement the Pensions Regulator (TPR) could use mortality assumptions made in pension scheme evaluations as 'triggers' has been met with a cautious welcome.

GERMANY/UK - Law firm Wragge & Co has been appointed by two Celesio sponsored company pension funds to advise trustees.

THE Pension Protection Fund is to consult on changing assumptions in a bid to bring section 143 and section 179 valuations in line with pricing in the buyout market.

The £2bn Avon Pension Fund is looking for multi-managers to run two specialist active property portfolios worth a total of £250m.

Private equity creating jobs, says BVCA; Doubts hang over future of Pickfords; UBS posts $13.7bn sub-prime write-down