US - Rhode Island's unfunded public pension liabilities for teachers and most state workers jumped about 27% after the board overseeing the retirement system voted to cut the presumed rate of return on assets.
US - The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) has reported a fall in its funding level of 7% to 71% in the fiscal year to June 30 2010.
EUROPE - KAS Bank has developed an app for the iPad which enables pension fund managers, trustees, sponsors and fund administrators to access up-to-date fund data at any time and from any location.
US - State and local government pension fund assets rose by 5.5% in the last quarter of 2010 as stock market gains helped recoup losses incurred since the financial crisis.
US - The funded status of the 100 largest corporate defined benefit pension plans declined by $6bn during February 2011, research by Milliman shows.
The Kingfisher Group wiped £140m off its defined benefit schemes' combined deficit last year, due to asset returns and changes to discount rate and mortality assumptions.
NETHERLANDS - The average funding ratio of Dutch pension funds rose from 99% to 107% over the last quarter of 2010, figures from the country's central bank show.
Benign markets and the shift from RPI to CPI reduced defined benefit deficits from £144bn to £64bn over the past year, Pension Capital Strategies research shows.
Uniq's deficit for equity agreement is "quite clearly" the best option for the trustees, The Pensions Regulator says.
The typical funding level for the pension schemes of small to medium sized businesses increased 3.7 percentage points in Q4 last year, figures reveal.