TRUSTEES of the West Ferry Printers Pension Scheme are considering asking The Pensions Regulator to issue its first ever financial support direction, PP has learned.

UK - Mystery surrounds the origin of a £6.5bn (US$13bn) transfer between UK pension funds revealed in the Office of National Statistics (ONS) 2006 MQ5 tables.

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US - New changes in pension law affecting American Airlines and Continental Airlines have reportedly left two US senators fuming.

THE GOVERNMENT is holding talks over whether to provide personal account trustees with indemnity insurance, PP can reveal.

FIDELITY INTERNATIONAL has launched its first institutional absolute return fund in a bid to help schemes control deficit risk.

PEERS have defeated the government in a key vote on the creation of a "lifeboat fund" to help 125,000 scheme wind-up victims.

ALMOST everybody worries about work while on holiday, a study shows.

NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension giant ABP has decided to increase its asset allocation in indexation bonds from 4.2% to 7% by 2009.

Union officials are seeking guarantees that pension benefits will be protected when Lloyds TSB's share registration unit is sold to a private equity firm.