More than 20pc of companies believe personal accounts will lead to leveling down of pension provision, a Gissings survey reveals.

Gwynedd Council has gone out to tender for an active global equity investment manager for its pension fund.

A campaign group backed by Age Concern has lost a key stage in its legal challenge against mandatory retirement ages.

Trustees of the £180m Lehman Brothers UK defined benefit pension scheme have lodged an initial claim with the Pension Protection Fund.

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UK - The use of derivatives by UK pension funds to hedge risk has fallen significantly in 2008 because of the ongoing credit crisis, Watson Wyatt has said.

SWITZERLAND - Eight Swiss pension funds along with institutional investors' association Ethos have today filed a shareholder resolution at the annual general meetings (AGM) of the five largest Swiss listed companies.

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COMPANIES are becoming reluctant to continue accepting pensions risk, PricewaterhouseCoopers said today.

ITALY - Italian regulators are set to review current rules which prohibit pension funds from investing in hedge funds, following the decision by the government's Treasury department to launch a public consultation on a draft regulatory document by the...