AUSTRALIA - The A$23bn (US$14.9bn) industry superannuation fund UniSuper is to extend its proxy voting policy to include Asian investments.

The government has insisted amendments to the Pensions Bill will minimise the risk of levelling down of existing good pension provision, delegates heard.

US public pension plans walk a fine line between being some of the world's most sophisticated money managers and bowing to government rules and bureaucracy. Andrew Sheen investigates

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UK - Increased redemptions by institutional investors has prompted asset manager New Star AM to suspend trading in its international property fund, with immediate effect.

Families face £400 bill to pay for public sector pensions; Fears mount that Government will default on bonds; Wealthy pension savers under attack; How it affects your pay, pension and spending; Focus should have been on index-linked gilts; Ageing societies...

GLOBAL - The market value of assets in the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund has dropped 29.6% since the start of the year.

Christine Senior examines the properties of gold as an asset class in its own right by talking to some of its advocates in the investment world

The World Gold Council's Rozanna Wozniak talks to Jenny Blinch about the benefits of a strategic allocation to gold

UK - The government must address the issue of means testing now as Britain cannot afford another round of pension reform, the Conservatives warn.