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Including: UK - Arch pushes East; FRANCE - Strikes continue; JAPAN - Credit Suisse moves into Japan; UK - NAPF welcomes deregulatory proposals; UK - Smurfit Kappa awards £20m mandate to Invesco

REGULATION of the private equity industry is needed to protect employees' jobs and pensions, unions warn.

UK - The pension fund buyout market is yet to fulfil its potential after an unimpressive third quarter, according to Aon Consulting.

UK - The Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) has called on the government to lift the ban on conditionally indexed pensions in order to slow the retreat from defined benefit (DB) schemes.

EUROPE - In order to cope with wide scale changes to the investment landscape, consultants Watson Wyatt and the Financial Times have launched a joint research project to help advise stakeholders.

Pension funds in bid to halt ‘proxy access' vote; Pension strategy can cut PPF levy; Private equity chief in warning on code; Pension Corp hits back after official rebuke

Using sex-specific actuarial factors to calculate pensionable service for scheme transfers is discriminatory, the European Court of Justice has ruled.

US -. The South Carolina Retirement System has appointed GAM to manage a US$750m mandate for allocation into GAM's diversity strategy.

Watson Wyatt has launched a defined contribution pension provider research database for Europe.

US - Thirty leading investors, who collectively manage more than US$1.4trn in assets, have sent a letter to Congress regarding the passage of a national energy bill for the expansion of clean energy, reduction of oil dependence and curbing of pollution...