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Trustees and employers must take responsibility for minimising their risk-based levy payments to the Pension Protection Fund, Lane Clark & Peacock warns.

BT could see its pension deficit increase by £4.2bn if Accounting Standards Board proposals are implemented, John Ralfe warns.

UK - The Court of Appeal has found the government did mislead at least 125,000 people about the safety of their pensions, in a ruling this morning.

Nearly three-quarters of trustees would be concerned if a private equity firm took over their scheme sponsor, research shows.

A fixed cost-charging structure for personal accounts would be a "regressive step" and penalise the target market, Aon Consulting claims.

Pensions Management Institute vice-president Brian Critchell is joining communication consultant Anthony Hodges Consulting.

UK - The BT pension scheme liabilities will grow to almost £46bn (€61.4bn) and be pushed into a £7.6bn deficit if suggested changes to UK accounting standards are implemented, according to research by independent consultant John Ralfe on behalf of RBC...

Prominent fund manager and leading proponent of corporate governance Alastair Ross Goobey has died. He was 62.

AUSTRALIA - MLC has announced a US$370m (€253m) allocation to global alternative debt within the diversified portfolios of its superannuation and allocated pension clients.

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