FRANCE - The €29.1bn French Pensions Reserve Fund, Fonds De Reserve Pour Les Retraites (FRR) has dropped Société Générale Asset Management (SGAM) from a €331.5m US mid-cap equities mandate for performance reasons.

THE PENSION Protection Fund took more than a year to bill the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme correctly for the 2005-06 levy, the fund claims.

Trustees of failed schemes should not be sniped at

FOUR-FIFTHS of UK pension funds plan to alter their asset mixes "significantly" over the next three years, latest research from Greenwich Associates shows.

UNION bosses have refused to back down over controversial changes to the Cambridge University Press's pension scheme.

THE government is set to halve the amount of pensionable pay council workers can contribute into additional voluntary contributions.

Pension funds are to withdraw £3.7bn from F&C Asset Management during the next few months, shareholders have heard.

STAFF at the BBC have united in protest against the closure of its final salary pension scheme to new entrants.

EQUITIES are set to continue their recovery throughout the remainder of 2006, BlackRock says.

NEGOTIATIONS between British Airways and workers over how to fund a £2.1bn pensions deficit are still a long way from resolution, unions claim.