Tom Selby looks at enhanced transfer value (ETV) exercises and asks why so many industry experts are opposed to them

The British Airways Pension Trustees have retained State Street Corporation to service its schemes worth £14bn.

CB Richard Ellis Investors has launched a UK direct property fund for defined contribution pension investors.

Pitmans Trustees has launched a master trust service to allow schemes to offer "life only" members life assurance benefits.

The UK industrial sector is at a competitive disadvantage to its foreign counterparts as a result of burgeoning pension deficits, a consultant says.

Sponsors of UK defined benefit schemes have made more progress in reducing risk than their counterparts in the US and Canada, a consultant says.

The £1.3bn Suffolk County Council pension fund has appointed PIRC to provide research and voting recommendations on its global portfolio.

The £21m Cumberland Newspaper Group pension scheme has appointed Punter Southall to provide all core pension services.

Politicians must be wary of reaching a "cosy consensus" over future pensions policy, Liberal Democrat pensions spokesman Steve Webb warns.

Liberal Democrat pensions spokesman Steve Webb talks to Tom Selby about being the party who asks the awkward questions.