Reforms in US pension accounting standards are set to lead to tougher restrictions on how publicly-listed UK firms report their pension position.

THE FINANCIAL Services Authority has launched an investigation into the impact that the growth in the private equity market has had on UK markets.

INSURERS are backing the Financial Services Authority's principles-based approach to policing their industry in a bid to simplify regulation.

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

US - Investec Asset Management has appointed Credit Suisse's Steve Paddon as managing director of its US institutional business.

SCHEMES "influenced by the hype" surrounding portable alpha strategies could be caught out by the risks and costs involved, PIMCO fears.

PENSIONS have been chancellor Gordon Brown's biggest ever policy failure, Conservatives claim.

PPF faces £1bn in potential claims; BT pension deficit ‘may be £3bn more than estimated'; Barclays set to buy German fund firm

AUSTRIA - Mercer Human Resource Counsulting in Austria is lobbying for pension provision to be included in collective agreements across the chemical and construction industries.

FUNDS under management at Midas Capital rose to more than £750m this year, latest company figures reveal.