Local authority schemes have warned they will reconsider investments if firms fail to put sex equality at the top of their agendas.

Tiered employee contribution rates may be the only way to retain final salary provision under the rejigged Local Government Pension Scheme, a leading civil servant claims.

LAW firm Dickinson Dees will spearhead nationwide conveyancing for Standard Life clients considering the purchase of commercial property through self-invested personal pensions.

An outgoing trustee of IBM's UK scheme has launched a scathing attack on the computer giant's policy of "flying in US executives" for pension meetings.

RREEF has completed the first close of its pan-European infrastructure fund after raising €561m(£378m).

US - A fund is to be established to meet the US$214m firefighters and police pension shortfall of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Nearly 80pc of workers claim they would need advice over whether to join a national pension savings scheme, research shows.

MALTA - The Opposition leader has said pension funding and payments should be resegregated - as they were in the 70s.

EUROPE - Teesland iOG aims to raise e280m equity from institutional investors following the launch of its Nordic Aktiv Property Fund - the first in a series of high-yielding multi-sector and specialist funds the firm plans to launch in Europe.

ABOLISHING stamp duty on shares would free up more than £4bn a year to repair the damage done to the pensions system, the Conservatives claim.