The UK should look at "carrot and stick" ways to improve workplace education on pension issues and increase savings, a consultant claims.

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UK - Standard Life is looking to the US for guidance on behavioural finance and auto-enrollment as the UK prepares to implement the National Pension Savings Scheme (NPSS).

REVELATION Healthcare is launching an overseas treatment option to help firms fight the rising cost of healthcare in the UK.

PRUDENTIAL could be usurped as the UK's leading annuity provider following Canada Life's "aggressive" move into the market, The Annuity Bureau believes.

Many trustees doubt whether they will be needed when new pension regulations take effect in 2012, a leading consultant claims.

UK - Amaranth Advisors, the ill-fated US hedge fund that lost US$6bn on investments in natural gas in September, has got rid of five members of staff from its London office.

Capita Group has been chosen as Co-operative Insurance Society preferred business partner to develop its life and savings administration operations.

FORTIS INVESTMENTS and Trucost have teamed up to launch a environmental benefits investment framework.

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