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Defined Benefit
Punter Southall has teamed up with PensionsFirst to automate the production of actuarial valuations and cut costs for schemes.
27 February 2012
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Risk Management
Costain has begun an enhanced transfer value exercise as part of a raft of measures designed to cut its pension scheme liabilities by £50m.
24 February 2012
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Defined Benefit
Rolls Royce Holdings has more than halved its post-retirement deficit to £397m and continued its concerted programme of de-risking.
24 February 2012
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Press
Pensioners count the cost of Bank moves to stimulate economy; Ford moves pension fund assets to bonds to limit risks
23 February 2012
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Legislation
The government has redrafted legislation on asset-backed funding published two months ago - potentially jeopardising transactions in progress, a consultant says.
23 February 2012
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Defined Benefit
The Royal Bank of Scotland has confirmed a £3.5bn shortfall in its pension scheme after recording actuarial losses of £581m this year.
23 February 2012
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Defined Benefit
More than a third of defined benefit schemes have recovery plans that exceed the ten-year limit set out in guidance from the regulator, research finds.
23 February 2012
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Industry
Somewhere in Europe a small forest has been felled to keep up with EIOPA's insatiable demand for more paper as it produced yet another volume on the proposed new IORPS directive this week.
23 February 2012
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Industry
UK schemes will need to share the cost of risk modelling if Solvency II-type regulations are applied to the pensions industry, experts argue.
23 February 2012
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