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Infrastructure experts say it offers diversification and safety from troubled markets. Andrew Sheen examines how pension funds can invest in the asset class

In its first ever roundtable on the topic, Global Pensions gathered industry experts in London to discuss the long and short of 130/30 funds

UK - Pension scheme trustees have been set a deadline of two years to ensure the key activities of winding up are completed, under a consultation paper issued today.

In January 2008, Global Pensions launched the inaugural New York Transition Management Forum New York. It was attended by pension fund managers, asset controllers and industry professionals from all over the US. Reporting by Elizabeth Pfeuti

Santiago Montenegro and çlvaro Pedraza give an overview of the Colombian pension system

AUSTRALIA - A full-scale review of Australia's existing retirement incomes system needs to be launched by the new Labor government to deal with a confused and fragmented policy landscape, according to the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees...

UK - A pledge to review the contribution cap and transfers ban applied to personal accounts has been welcomed by the chief executive of the committee overseeing their design and implementation.

UK - The Pensions Bill Committee is set to debate proposals from the Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) which could potentially mean an end to the ban on employers being able to offer new conditionally indexed pension schemes.

THE Pensions Regulator has gone out to consultation on plans to include mortality assumptions as a new "trigger" for funding plans.

The department for work and pensions is to examine new deregulatory measures to ease burdens on defined benefit schemes, Professional Pensions can reveal.