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.

UK- Only 19 % of UK pension schemes have implemented an LDI strategy - despite an expressed need, according to new research from SEI.

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.

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

Compromise likely on pensions cap; Peers set to government to account over lost pensions; Brown signals private equity crackdown; Blackstone drops controversial profit move

The number of pension scheme investment professionals in the UK has increased by nearly a fifth (18pc) since 2003, Hymans Robertson says.