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JPMORGAN Worldwide Securities Services has launched new investment tools to help pension schemes boost returns.

Scheme funding will play a crucial part in any takeover of Alliance Boots, Pensions & Investment Research Consultants claims.

Companies could fall foul of The Pensions Regulator's anti-avoidance powers even if schemes are fully funded under the FRS17 accountancy standard, lawyers warn.

F&C Asset Management is to offset its emissions in a bid to become carbon neutral.

State Street is to provide specialist Paternoster with collateral management services.

EUROPE - Euro-zone defined benefit (DB) pension plans beat their global peers in terms of increasing their projected benefit obligation (PBO) funded ratios in the last quarter of 2006, new report has claimed.

Pensions accounting standard FRS17 ignores the strength of the employer's covenant and fails to address the "real issues" of funding, Xafinity Consulting claims.

Sellers leaves Nomura

Proposals to widen access to hedge funds to the retail market could boost institutional investment in the asset class, consultants say.

Actuaries want former Watson Wyatt partner Paul Thornton's review of pension institutions to be extended to cover all government departments that deal with pensions.