HIGH value assets such as classic cars are attracting investors as a third of people look at new ways to help fund their retirement.

BUSINESSES accept they must take more responsibility for their employees' health because the National Health Service is failing them, healthcare provide HSA claims.

Total assets at the world's largest pension funds grew by around 12pc to $9.4trn (£5bn) during 2005, latest research from Watson Wyatt reveals.

SCHEMES and sponsors ineligible for the Pension Protection Fund are looking at bulk annuities as a way of guaranteeing benefits, Paternoster says.

AUTO-enrolment into the government's proposed personal accounts will cut some people's income as "meagre" savings will disqualify them from means-tested benefits, Heath Lambert Consulting warns.

THE PENSION Protection Fund has published revised commutation factors, compensation cap factors and early retirement factors.

US - Latin American equity assets under management among US institutions doubled from US$10bn in 2005 to approximately $20.5bn by Q1 2006, according to Greenwich Associates.

DEPARTMENT store John Lewis's pension costs will rise by £3m a year when the government's personal accounts take effect in 2012.

Firms may have to rethink redundancy packages following the government's decision to delay new age discrimination rules for pensions.

NAPF denies revamp