Firefighters are threatening to strike over plans to scrap ill health retirement benefits from their pension provision.

US - Barings has been awarded more than 18 active international equity mandates, that has added $1.1bn dollars in funding in 2007.

THE extent to which trustees are legally required to explain their actions to members and other beneficiaries "remains uncertain", a lawyer says.

The government must reverse its refusal to help small businesses with personal accounts implementation, employers have said.

Firms and trustees are seeing costs rise through failing to assess the full range of scheme buyout options, PricewaterhouseCoopers warns.

Brazil's biggest pension funds are boosting their equity investments in a bid to increase returns.

The government must reverse its refusal to help small businesses with personal accounts implementation, employers have said.

Britain's biggest firms have seen pension deficits drop by £24bn since the middle of August, latest research by Mercer shows.

IRELAND - The Irish Association of Pension Funds (IAPF) hailed yesterday's green paper, as an opportunity to make pensions more attractive and understandable.

The Ashridge Business School Pension Scheme has appointed Wragge & Co as its legal adviser.