THE PENSIONS ombudsman has found Electricity Supply Pension Scheme trustees guilty of maladministration in their handling of a member's bid to claim an ill-health pension.

SCHRODERS is exploring the potential of defined contribution lifestyle funds that react to market conditions rather than automatically switch assets at a fixed point.

First round voting for the Pensions Personality of the Year closes today - and the response has already been overwhelming.

VERIFICATION of investment performance figures should be mandatory when global standards are reviewed in 2010, UK institutional investors have urged.

INDEPENDENT financial advisers have reported an increase in the number of people using group self-invested personal pensions to purchase commercial property.

Shareholders of the world's largest food services group Compass are being urged to reject a "flawed" remuneration package for its executive directors.

Investors in the UK commercial property market during 2006 enjoyed another year of strong investment ...

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Regulators are being urged to clamp down on the over-selling of self-invested personal pensions, SG Wealth Manage-ment claims.

Pension deficits at Britain's biggest companies have dropped to £31.8bn - the lowest levels since records began.