THE HIGH-LEVEL software language of R is setting standards in quantitative analysis. And now anybody can get to grips with it thanks to The R Book by Michael Crawley.

City "fat cats" should pay for financial education to make more people aware about the need to save for their retirement, bosses say.

A radical EU overhaul of how insurers cover risk has moved a step nearer - and could be extended to pension schemes.

THE GOVERNMENT has ann-ounced a programme of events to help employers develop awareness of disability issues.

Pensions Bill unveiled

Skandia Investment Management has restructured its European equity manager line-up with the addition of Argonaut and Alliance Bernstein.

Trustees of the Dubery pension fund are hopeful a landmark age discrimination ruling will be overturned by the Court of Appeal.

AllenbridgeEPIC Investment Advisers has been appointed as the investment adviser for the London Borough of Islington's pension fund.

ALL scheme wind-up victims could get 90pc of their core pension after the government promised to increase Financial Assistance Scheme funding.

CARDANO has opened its London office in a bid to provide UK schemes with an alternative to traditional investment consultants.