CURRENT market approaches to executive pay packets are "positively damaging" to institutional investors' interests, governance watchdogs say.

LONDON Pensions Fund Authority investment director Suzanne Ross has resigned after only five weeks in her post.

EDUCATIONAL charity Life Academy has launched a new qualification in life planning.

The Pensions Archive Trust is considering joining up with the London Metropolitan Archives to collate and preserve historical documents relating to the UK pensions industry.

PENSION funds have sunk almost £2.5bn into exchange-traded funds since the beginning of 2006, Barclays Global Investors says.

INSTITUTIONAL investors should back new guidelines setting out best practice for corporate governance on issues of health and safety, Insight Investment says.

FLEET software provider The Miles Consultancy has won six contracts in as many weeks.

AUSTRALIA - Chief investment officer André Morony has left the A$17bn Australian Reward Investment Alliance (ARIA) after six years, the fund confirmed today.

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).

AGE DISCRIMINATION rules are making it difficult to calculate ill-health pensions, oil giant Shell claims.