Europe

UK/EU - Trustees will have to rethink scheme rules in the wake of new laws on sexual orientation and disability discrimination, a leading pensions lawyer claims.

UK - Scottish Life has relaunched its pension transfer campaign - Transfer to the Winning Team - with a new CD-Rom.

UK - Closing a defined benefit scheme changes the nature of an employer's problems but it does not end them, Lane Clark & Peacock warns.

UK/EUROPE - European ministers have rejected pleas from UK employers to place restrictions on agency workers' pension rights.

UK - The pension ombudsman's office is bracing itself for numerous complaints against companies which have closed their final salary schemes.

US/EUROPE - Gartmore believes now is the time to invest in Europe and the US.

UK - The government would be "fiddling while Rome burns" if it sets up a Royal Commission on pensions, consultants claim.

UK - Neptune Investment Management has credited its global sector driven investment style for its outperformance in third quarter figures from CAPS.

UK - Unison is urging the government to revamp stakeholder pensions to help low paid workers.

UK - Beleaguered telecoms giant Marconi believes the deficit of its £2.5bn final salary scheme may "not be as bad as first thought".