EMPLOYERS offering staff group personal pensions should consider setting up trustee board-style committees to oversee them, Truestone Asset Management believes.

A campaign to promote the tax benefits of charity donations through payroll-giving has been launched by Oxfam.

US - Watson Wyatt Worldwide has reported a 15% year on year increase on revenues for the third quarter of fiscal year 2007, topping US$395.6m.

PRUDENCE is paying dividends for private sector schemes. Deficits have tumbled in the past year and Aon Consulting recently forecast that the majority of UK company pension schemes could be in surplus within just three years. And even though that prediction...

HELPING employees to stop smoking would raise workplace productivity, recruitment experts claim.

FSA rules out inquiry into pension opt-outs; Treasury consults on cutting fund management costs by £290m a year; Interest rates set to rise to 5.5pc; Stock exchanges set for competition

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A HIGH Court judge has upheld trustees' rights to demand extra cash from sponsors despite new scheme specific funding regime.

GLOBAL - Differences in national regulations are creating an unlevel performance playing field for direct benefit (DB) pension schemes according to a new survey by Allianz Global Investors.

FIVE INVESTMENT management firms and third-party administrators have launched an initiative to enable straight-through processing for the institutional pensions market