MAN INVESTMENTS has launched an inflation-linked guaranteed investment structure to help schemes eradicate liabilities and protect them from downside risk.

ANNUITY providers should have more freedom over how they invest their funds to give customers better rates, a consultant says.

LAW firm Stephensons is introducing company paid healthcare for its 380-strong workforce.

Dominican Republic - The corruption prevention department of the Dominican Republic has begun an investigation into the suspected embezzlement of millions of pesos from the finance ministry's pensions and retirements department.

ABN AMRO Mellon Global Securities Services has been appointed as custodian to Cambridgeshire County Council's £1.2bn scheme.

CHINA - The RMB211.79bn (US$26.7bn) National Council for Social Security Fund (SSF) has awarded its first overseas mandates totalling more than $1bn to 10 foreign fund managers.

GOVERNMENT moves to speed up wind-ups will have little impact until schemes know the effects of the landmark Dubery ruling, actuaries warn.

Schemes buyouts are unlikely to become a major part of the pensions landscape because they are too expensive, delegates were told.

Firms are being offered impartial advice on how to manage pension liabilities by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

CHIEF executives are paying more attention to pensions than ever before, delegates heard.