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UK - Teesside Pension Fund has boosted its property portfolio with a parade of shops in London's fashionable Gloucester Road.

UK - Remunerating directors through co-investment plans is encouraging a short-termist outlook, corporate governance experts warn.

UK - Aerospace firm Bombardier Shorts has injected £96.5m into its pension scheme as part of plans to plug a £200m shortfall.

UK - Employers, the financial services industry and the government have been urged to unite to stem the tide of indifference on retirement savings by younger workers.

UK - The FRS17 deficit for non-financial services private sector firms has dropped by £60bn, new research shows.

UK - Construction industry workers would increase contributions if they had better knowledge of the stakeholder pension scheme EasyBuild, research shows.

UK - Shareholders are being urged to vote against remuneration reports at a number of key annual general meetings as the backlash against "excessive" pay continues.

UK - Opposition parties attacked the government after new figures showed the pension credit was failing to reach 2m of the 4.9m people eligible.

UK - Insight Investment has sold the freehold to a retail property in Bishop Stortford to a privately held company for £1.6m.

UK - Schemes must be aware that investment banks have a vested interest when they are trying to sell derivative or bond-based products, delegates were warned.