GERMANY - Commerzbank AG chief executive Klaus-Peter Mueller has warned against stricter regulation of the hedge fund industry.

UBS leases to council

Norwich Union has welcomed the government's new vocational rehabilitation taskforce to help ill or injured people stay in or return to work.

A EUROPEAN court ruling could force HM Revenue & Customs to change tax rules to make it easier for women to make backdated pension contributions, lawyers say.

The British Medical Association has been granted a judicial review to challenge the government's decision to cap doctors' pensions.

SCHEMES must be cautious about their choice of alternative assets and should ensure trustees are trained in the subject, delegates heard.

Unions are urging MPs to establish the unfunded liabilities of 75 insolvent pension schemes with links to private equity firms.

Churchill reappointed

ROYAL LIVER has appointed Mercer Investment Consulting to provide investment consulting services to the trustees of two of its pension schemes.

Investment firms will have to repay schemes at least £270m if, as expected, the European Court of Justice backs the EU advocate-general's tax opinion today (Thursday).