Europe

UK - The Pension Protection Fund is likely to be postponed until 2006, experts believe.

UK - Protests by workers who lost their pension savings when their firms collapsed brought traffic in central London to a standstill on Saturday afternoon.

NORWAY - Major pensions reforms are on the cards in Norway with the Pension Commission recommending sweeping changes to the existing system and proposing raising the retirement age to 70 years.

UK - PRUDENTIAL UK has appointed David Tildesley (pictured) as sales director - creating a new role within its business-to-business channel.

NORWAY - A new Government Pension Fund is to be established based on the Government Petroleum Fund (Statens Petroleumsfond) and the National Insurance Scheme to meet long term pension obligations.

EUROPE - The Committee of European Securities Regulators has published its recommendations for regulators on how listed companies can communicate the financial impact of moving to international accounting standards in 2005.

UK - Angry Equitable Life members have blamed directors, the department for trade and industry and the Financial Services Authority for the mutual's collapse.

EUROPE- The "pensions effect" was one positive factor to impact on European asset managers in McKinsey's annual European Asset Management Economics Survey.

UK - A newly published study of British high value stocks has discovered that value investment historically shows a strong performance premium, regardless of market capitalisation.

UK - Barclays Capital has launched electronic trading of UK government inflation-linked bonds through BARX, its single dealer page on Bloomberg.