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UK roundup: Pearson insures £1.2bn of liabilities in 'umbrella' deal
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UK roundup: LGPS valuations, MNOPF, Coats, Unison, Pearson
Consultancy calls for portfolio-based approach for more transparent LGPS valuations
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UK roundup: Pearson, PPF, Towers Watson
UK – Publishing group Pearson sees DB fund recovery period fall by 3 years after deficit reduced.
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Pearson pension transfers stall at calculation
[14:30 CET 09-02] UK – Hundreds of members of the Pearson Group Pension Trustee Limited are facing yet more delays to requested occupational pensions transfers, even though administrators are understood to have repeatedly indicated members’ transfer values would be calculated and dealt with months ago.
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Concerns see Pearson remove UBS fund
[12:30 CET 12-10] UK - Trustees of the Pearson Group pension plan will remove the UBS global optimal fund from its defined contributions investment range from January, on the back of “continuing concerns” about its investment returns.
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Pearson to pay £273m to plug pension deficit
[14:00 CEST 12-07] UK - Pearson Plc is to make £273.4m (€403.5m) in additional payments into the Pearson Pension Group pension plan over the next eight years to address a shortfall, an official company document reveals.
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Sainsbury’s pension manager Pearson retires
UK – Geof Pearson, manager and secretary of the £3.8bn (€5.5bn) Sainsbury pension fund, will shortly be retiring from the scheme.
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Pearson pension scheme manager retires
UK – Pam Jenkins, secretary and manager of the £1bn (€1.5bn) defined benefit group pension of publishing group Pearson, has retired.
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Pioneer promotes Pearson to head of equities
IRELAND – Dublin-based Pioneer Investments has promoted head of European equities Stan Pearson to the newly-created position of head of equities.
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From football to the Karma Sutra
Geof Pearson, manager and secretary of the £3.8bn (€5.5bn) Sainsbury pension fund, retired recently after 18 years with the scheme.