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PUNTER SOUTHALL Financial Management will host a seminar addressing priority workplace pensions issues in 2008.

CANADA - The Canada Pension Plan (CPP) is expected to more than double its assets to C$250bn (US$248.9bn) by 2016.

THE £7.9BN West Midlands Pension Fund has appointed JPMorgan to provide currency hedging for the scheme's non-UK assets.

Accounting Standards Board proposals to change the discount rate used for calculating liabilities will lead to further defined benefit closures, actuaries say.

The deadline for the first round vote for the Pensions Personality of the Year has been extended to noon on Thursday, February 14.

NU boosts non-SIPP range

LV= business triples

Bradford City Council leader Ian Greenwood has been appointed chairman of the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum following its annual general meeting.

THE PENSIONS REGULATOR determinations panel has issued two financial support directions on Sea Containers.

Public sector pension liabilities have been underestimated by £236bn, a report by the Institute of Economic Affairs reveals.