• Pension deficits thwart firms seeking restructure
  Final-salary pension deficits are making it harder for recession-hit firms to restructure themselves in preparation for an economic recovery, the CBI and Towers Watson has warned.
• Predictions for pensions professionals in 2010
  Watson Wyatt has predicted five key trends for pensions professionals during 2010.
• Older population puts pressure on retirement age
  Towers Watson believes that population change will make it harder for the government to resist reform as the number of people in their late 60s is expected to rise by more than 600,000 in five years.
• Towers Watson questions NEST branding
  Paul Macro, a senior consultant at Towers Watson, has criticised the government after its branding of the personal-accounts pension scheme as NEST.
• Towers Perrin notes pension deficit growth
  The FTSE 100's defined benefit pensions deficit continues to grow, reaching GBP72bn at the end of November, according to professional services firm Towers Perrin.

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