AEGON Scottish Equitable has boosted the flexibility of its group personal pension product with the addition of four alternative charging options.

Two-thirds of staff at banking group ING Direct have signed up to a new flexible benefits plan within a month of its launch.

UK commercial property delivered a total return of 18.1pc last year, latest data shows.

INSTITUTE of Actuaries' sanctions against the three former Equitable Life directors are notable for their severity, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain says.

TOTAL funds under management at Schroders rose 5pc in 2006 despite the loss of more than £17bn of institutional assets, the company's preliminary results reveal.

SCHEMES are decreasing their UK equity exposure in favour of overseas markets and high-alpha products, research by Hymans Robertson shows.

ACTUARIES and fund managers should consider "chipping in" to help compensate scheme wind-up victims, a consultant says.

EVANRIDGE has launched a new property fund for high net worth self-invested personal pension investors.

COMPANIES could make "significant" savings by combining their final salary pension schemes, Watson Wyatt believes.

SOUTH AFRICA - The South African parliament has called for tougher action on pension fund administrators who have swindled trustees out of an estimated R500m (US$67.5m).