Key challenges facing human resources professionals will be under the spotlight at a two-day Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development conference next month.

GLOBAL - Pension funds across the globe often share the same outlook for the future, according to AXA Rosenberg, at the completion of its investor conferences.

Property companies have been punished "disproportionately" during market volatility following the credit crunch, LaSalle Investment Management has said.

Including: UK - Army puts stakeholder pension out to tender; CHINA - President promises pension improvements; UK - HSBC launches global property fund

Consultation on pension reforms at Royal Mail began this week and will run for two months.

Human resources directors' ignorance about the differences in pension benefits of senior employees can be divisive, Watson Wyatt warns.

A guide to private equity investments for pension fund trustees has been launched by the Trades Union Congress.

Increasing intervention in how defined contribution schemes are run could scare smaller firms away from pension provision altogether, a consultant warns.

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership has named Dean Buckley as its new chief executive.

The senior management team at Gissings Advisory Services Limited has bought out the firm backed by private equity investor Dunedin.