AN ONLINE calculator that shows scheme members how much chancellor Gordon Brown cost them by scrapping advanced tax credits has been launched.

SWEDEN - Following the news earlier this week that AP7 had appointed Danske Bank to manage a SEK2bn (US$294.5m) alpha creation mandate, the fund's CIO has told Global Pensions it is very close to awarding further mandates.

HENDERSON Global Investors and F&C Asset Management are poised to launch diversified growth funds following the runaway success of rivals' products in 2006.

Labour MEPs have been accused of trying to wreck a European parliament committee report on the near-collapse of Equitable Life in 2000.

COMPANIES are unlikely to recruit top talent if they fail to understand what people want from a potential employer, new research shows.

AN AMENDMENT to the Pensions Bill to launch a "lifeboat fund" to help 125,000 scheme wind-up victims has been voted down in parliament.

SYNESIS Life has appointed F&C Asset Management as its investment manager.

Regulator's veto over trustees is 'ludicrous'

US - The confidence of North American intuitional investors has dropped from 114.5 to 100.2, according to the State Street Investor Confidence Index for April 2007.

Consultant Lane Clark & Peacock has been appointed to provide investment advice to the Thomas Miller & Co Retirement Benefits Scheme.