United Kingdom

UK - The Joseph Singer court battle against the age 75 annuity rule has been dropped, according to a leading pensions lawyer.

UK - Henderson Global Investors won £4.5bn of institutional business figures last year. But it is far from upbeat about its prospects for 2002.

UK - There are shortfalls to trade measurement services, delegates at the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) investment conference will be told today as a disclosure code for pension funds is launched which has been drawn up by the NAPF and...

UK/GLOBAL - Alan Rubenstein, chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds' investment council, has said that Susan Keating, Allied Investment Banks' CEO of its US subsidiary Allfirst, should go in the wake of the Rusnak fraud.

UK - Railtrack is the "daddy of corporate governance scandals", according to the National Association of Pension Funds' (NAPF) investment council chairman Alan Rubenstein, but the NAPF will not be asking its members to co-sign a letter to the Treasury,...

UK - Low to middle income earners will be better off buying standard annuities, rather than taking up ‘riskier' flexible products, according to a prominent industry expert.

NETHERLANDS/UK - PGGM CIO Roderick Munsters says UK pension funds are happily invested in their own domestic markets and need not worry too much about gaining international exposure.

UK - The Conservatives accused the government of being in a "state of denial" over the recent pensions crisis, following a controversial meeting with TUC (Trade Union Congress) secretary general, John Monks.

UK/EUROPE - Ruth Kelly, economic secretary to the Treasury, today told delegates at the National Association of Pension Funds' investment conference in Edinburgh that the UK government will not allow inappropriate EU regulation to threaten the UK's present...

UK- The £1.1bn Granada Group Pension Fund has awarded Henderson Global Investors £250m in bonds.