Europe

UK - Government plans to end age discrimination could lead to a pensions meltdown, employers fear.

UK - Invesco Asset Management has denied mounting market speculation that it is planning to integrate its defined benefit and defined contribution businesses.

UK - Pensions administrators will see their jobs outsourced to China and India unless they overcome their Luddite tendencies.

UK - A definitive investment strategy for pension schemes in the 21st century is impossible to devise.

UK - A competition aimed at finding a radical blueprint for long-term pension fund investment has come under fire.

UK - A new investment technique that allows for easy portfolio management is set to "revolutionise" the pensions industry, Watson Wyatt claims.

UK/N. IRELAND - More than 300 former employees of a Belfast fertiliser factory face more misery as further benefit cuts are expected from their deficit-ridden pension scheme.

UK - Standard annuity rate fluctuations are baffling industry experts.

UK - The government's promise to consider making the Pensions Protection Fund retrospective failed to convince union officials and disgruntled scheme members at a government meeting.

UK - The combined pension deficit of FTSE100 companies equates to a debt of more than £37,000 per employee, research from Prudential shows.