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NETHERLANDS - JPMorgan has expanded its LifeMetrics longevity index coverage to include longevity and mortality rates in the Netherlands.

CANADA - The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) has blasted the Ontario Expert Commission on Pensions for failing Canadian businesses through what it said was too strict regulation governing pension investments.

Pensions clearance draft ‘lacks clarity'; Call for better fund research; Schroders in wake-up call for retirement plans; Markets braced for falls over US scare

UK - The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has suggested more accountability by private equity firms could lead to increased pension fund investment in the sector.

GLOBAL - The UK transition management industry has finally agreed to the T-Charter, a voluntary set of common standards.

UK - The Pension Corporation is "evaluating its options" after the Pensions Regulator appointed three independent trustees to the telent pension scheme at the request of the board.

FRANCE - Transport has largely returned to normal as strikes over pension reforms which effectively paralysed the capital and surrounding regions largely subsided.

AUSTRALIA - Support for ethical and socially responsible investment grew as Goldman Sachs JBWere Asset Management (GSJBWAM) signed up to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

NETHERLANDS - PGGM has asked Mercer to find high performing emerging markets equities managers which hold environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) at the core of their strategies.

Firms and trustees are seeing costs rise through failing to assess the full range of scheme buyout options, PricewaterhouseCoopers warns.