United Kingdom

UK - The Chartered Insurance Institute has added a savings and investments examination to its portfolio.

UK - The fourth edition of Forecasting Financial Markets: The Psychology of Successful Investing, is to be released next month.

UK - Murray Income Trust, the £310m investment trust that can trace its roots back to 1923, has appointed Marian Glen as a non-executive director.

UK - The Inland Revenue's £1.4m lifetime savings limit is too low, insurers and consultants have told the government.

UK - Aegon UK is urging the government to reconsider its proposals on income drawdown death benefits.

UK - The Financial Services Authority's outgoing chairman, Sir Howard Davies, has criticised Sandler's proposed suite of stakeholder products.

UK - Stakeholder pensions in the UK have not been the bonanza for insurance companies that might have been expected.

UK - The FSA has announced new rates of return and mortality decrements.

UK - British Airways pensioners have attacked the government for scrapping plans to extend the pensions ombudsman's remit.

UK - Watson Wyatt has criticised government proposals to introduce a recovery tax of 33% on people who "over-save" for retirement. The consultant described the measure as "penal".