United Kingdom

UK - Trade unions want new legislation to curb so-called "reward for failure" payoffs to company executives.

UK - A police constable will lose his pension after being dismissed for misconduct when he threatened to stand on a suspect's broken ankle.

UK - Jardine Lloyd Thompson and law firm Osborne Clarke are hosting a breakfast seminar on the changing benefits under final salary schemes.

UK - More than two million workers are paying too much for the running of their personal pension plans, Close Wealth Management claims.

UK - The London Pension Fund Authority has been reappointed to administer the London Borough of Brent Pension Fund's £343m pension scheme.

UK - Pension shortfalls are forcing grown-up children to make plans to support their parents financially, a new study shows.

UK - "Cautious confidence" may be returning to the pensions industry, a new study by Aon Consulting suggests.

UK - A company director accused of defrauding a pension fund of more than £2.1m faces trial at Southwark Crown Court.

UK - Hammonds pensions partner Ian Greenstreet is to leave the firm to establish and head-up a pensions practice at Fox Williams.

UK - Insurance broking group Bradstock has been forced into liquidation.