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EUROPE - The European Commission is set to publish a green paper on an EU framework for pensions.

The European Commission is set to publish a green paper on an EU framework for pensions.

Helen Morrissey talks to Paul Macro about the results of Towers Watson's FTSE 100 defined contribution pension scheme survey

Jonathan Stapleton previews the February 25 edition of Professional Pensions.

US - A federal court ruling certified a class action led by three Ohio pension funds accusing the American International Group (AIG) of securities fraud, but excluded bondholders from the class.

The London Pensions Fund Authority has set out a three-step plan to help secure the long-term sustainability of the Local Government Pension Scheme.

The value of employer top-up contributions into self-administered pension funds dropped by almost half between 2006 and 2008, Office for National Statistics data reveals.

Babcock International Group has chosen Friends Provident to administer a single defined contribution pension scheme for employees without access to its existing defined benefit schemes.

UK - Babcock International Group has chosen Friends Provident to administer a single defined contribution pension scheme for employees without access to its existing defined benefit schemes.

Last week, I bemoaned that, while successive governments had regulated defined benefit schemes out of existence, there had never been an investigation into how all this regulation came about and how such mistakes could be avoided in the future.