Ministers have bowed to pressure over plans to axe early retirement benefits for Local Government Pension Scheme members.

Pension schemes and fund managers have radically different views about products and which asset classes in which to invest, new research suggests.

RHYME Systems has launched a new self-invested personal pensions module to provide firms with an integrated investment platform.

GLOBAL - F&C Asset Management has disputed claims by think tank CREATE that managers had overestimated pension fund demand for products like liability driven investments (LDI) and hedge funds.

A quarter lack pension

INVESTOR demand for Asian property is fuelling a rapid growth of new investment funds as eastern European markets slump, property experts say.

ITALY - Simply "retouching" the Italian pension system could turn out to be more costly than doing nothing at all, warned Tito Boeri (pictured), director of the Italian think tank Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti.

Scheme wind-up victims claim prime minister Tony Blair is out of touch on pension issues following his speech at the Trades Union Congress conference in Brighton.

PENSION liabilities are having a "significant impact" on private equity deals and are becoming an influential factor in bid negotiations, latest research reveals.

ENGINEERING consultancy Advan-tica has relaunched its flexible benefits package online in a bid to boost take-up of more tax-efficient options.