United Kingdom

UK - Union leaders are close to settling their pensions row with Royal Mail.

UK - Pension fund trustees have not realised the advantages of a structured approach to cash-flow and risk management, Schroder Investment Management claims.

UK - Executives at nearly a third of FTSE250 companies will lose their final salary pensions over the next two years, research from Towers Perrin reveals.

UK - Industry experts are urging the government to bring forward its Pension Protection Fund after more company failures threaten to wipe out workers' pensions.

UK - The pension regulator is to probe the winding-up of the Sea-Land pension plan by international shipping giant Maersk.

UK - Trade unions and directors are set to clash over whether executives get better pension deals than other staff.

UK - Britain's highest paid and most influential businessmen have criticised the government's proposal to tax personal pensions worth more than £1.4m.

UK - Aberdeen Asset Management looks set to win the race to take over Edinburgh Fund managers in a deal worth approximately £30m, industry sources claim.

UK - Arms expert David Kelly's widow has told the Hutton inquiry about worries over the security of his pension.

UK - The Government Actuary's Department is bidding for local authority actuarial mandates following Watson Wyatt's decision to quit the sector.