The tax bill for alternatively secured pensions could be reduced from 80pc to 64pc by using them as part of a group scheme, Rowanmoor Pensions claims.

COMPLAINTS about poor administration in occupational schemes are falling but similar problems with personal pension plans are soaring, new figures will show.

Traditional asset classes such as equities and bonds should not be abandoned by schemes, Morley claims.

IRELAND - The National Pensions Reserve Fund of Ireland (NPRF) has invested €80m in the JPMorgan Euro Managed Currency Plus Fund.

BALANCED pooled funds achieved a median return of 2.7pc in May, latest CAPS figures from Mellon Analytical Solutions reveals.

THE FORESTRY sector delivered returns of 20.6pc last year, outperforming equities, gilts and commercial property.

INVESTMENT management firms could be forced to pay schemes billions of pounds if an EU advocate general's opinion on value-added tax is upheld in the European Court of Justice tomorrow.

Friends Provident is adding a self-investment capabi lity to its group pension plan.

An increasing number of institutions are cutting their bond holdings to allocate additional resources to fund of hedge funds, Fauchier Partners claims.

PAYDEN & RYGEL has launched a central and eastern European equity fund for pension schemes and other institutional investors.