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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.

THE PENSIONS Regulator has used its powers to appoint three independent trustees to Telent Pension Scheme's board of trustees.

THREE transition management firms have slammed the new "T-Charter" code of practice for not going far enough to protect pension schemes properly.

US - Wilshire Associates has appointed Lawrence E Davanzo to the newly created role of president.

THE LOCAL Authority Pension Fund Forum has signed up to the United Nations principles for responsible investment.

UK - A report on the future viability of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) has called for a shake-up in the way the scheme is funded and could result in sweeping changes.