PENSION funds are pressing transition managers to disclose their position on the long-awaited industry code of practice, the T Charter, according to managers.

INCREASED legislative burdens have trebled the number of schemes mulling a shift to third-party administration arrangements, latest research from Capita Hartshead reveals.

UK PENSION schemes could reclaim millions of pounds should a European Commission legal challenge against discriminatory taxation of equity dividends and interest payments on bonds succeed.

CREDIT Suisse has hired Kieron Nutbrown to run its asset management division's foreign exchange overlay business.

THE Pensions Action Group has dismissed union claims it over-complicated an amendment to the Pensions Bill leading to its defeat in the Commons.

MORE than a third of workers no longer follow traditional "nine-to-five" working hours, research shows.

PENSION funds with large European holdings are poised to receive strong returns in 2007 as economic recovery picks up, fund managers say.

EUROPE - Crédit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM) underperformed its previous quarter's result by €2bn but still grew its assets under management 9.6€ to €544.4bn (US$739bn).

UK - Equities have been given a "renewed vote of confidence" by institutional investors, showed the results of the latest Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers.

INVESTMENT in ethical funds by schemes and other investors has surpassed £5bn for the first time, Investment Management Association figures reveal.