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The Willis Group pension scheme has adopted PensionsFirst's PFaroe platform to manage risks in its £1.3bn scheme.

Jack Jones looks at plans revealed in the Autumn Statement to ease the burden of DB

The LV= Employee Pension Scheme has entered into an £800m longevity swap with Swiss Re to hedge the longevity risk associated with more than 5,000 members.

Jack Jones looks at the pros and cons

PcW has announced two appointments to its pensions risk and investment consulting business.

Lorica Employee Benefits has launched a de-risking tool that allows members to see what value their defined benefit entitlements are worth in the annuity market.

A "perfect storm of de-risking" could lead to widening pension deficits that will dwarf bond markets, warns the Society of Pension Consultants.

Mercer has launched a daily funding monitoring service which will allow schemes to check the value of their scheme assets and liabilities daily.

Asset managers must act now to take advantage of prolonged market volatility, a report says, after the study revealed growing investor appetite for more dynamic asset strategies.

Almost 100 bulk annuity and longevity swap deals worth more than £50m have taken place in the UK since 2007 as part of an international trend, Mercer research says.