FINANCIAL advisers are unsure about offering clients alternatively secured pensions due to the uncertainty about their future, industry insiders claim.

NEW ZEALAND - The NZ$10.8bn New Zealand Superannuation Fund has appointed Anne-Maree O'Connor head of responsible investment.

MAJEDIE Asset Management has closed its UK equity service to new business in a bid to preserve performance.

EMPLOYEE membership of defined benefit has fallen from 46pc of the workforce to 35pc in just eight years, latest data published by the Office for National Statistics reveals.

EUROPE - The complexity and diversity of Europe's national pension systems is increasing costs for multi-national companies and "accelerating" the trend towards job relocation outside of the EU, the results of a worldwide survey published today by AEGON...

JORDAN - A pension reform linking benefits to lifetime contributions and ensuring pensions are indexed to inflation should be a priority, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a staff report.

THE BANK of New York and Mellon Financial are set to merge - a move that will create the world's largest global securities servicing firm.

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THE PPF has published three voluntary certificates - for section 179 valuations, deficit reduction contributions and contingent assets - on its website.

THE PENSION Protection Fund has published a consultation document on whether to include investment strategy as a separate risk factor in the risk based levy.