New guidance on scheme abandonment by The Pensions Regulator may have been prompted by a drop in clearance applications, a lawyer claims.

THE GOVERNMENT is frustrating challenges to vital points of pensions law by failing to offer plaintiffs legal aid, a leading pensions lawyer says.

UK - The Strathclyde Pension Fund has awarded its first unconstrained, long only, global equity mandates to Alliance Bernstein, Edinburgh Partners, Invesco and Lazard.

Despite all the doom and gloom about pensions, research carried out by the Chartered Institute of Per...

HOSPITAL cash plans offer the same number of benefits as standard private medical insurance policies and some beat budget cover, new research shows.

EMPLOYEE benefit consultants Xafinity has appointed Simon Stretton as its new chief information officer.

AGE discrimination regulations could increase scheme costs by as much as 100pc, advisers warn.

Schemes have been advised to abstain in a vote to re-elect three board members to British Assets Trust.

JOHN LEWIS Partnership Pen-sions Trust is on the verge of signing a manager to run a £25m infrastructure mandate.

SCHEMES need better ways of measuring the performance of their administration systems, a new report says.