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John Crocker has been appointed as the C$18.2bn (£8.1bn) Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan's new president and chief executive.

IT firm Cap Gemini Ernst & Young has warned that there is likely to be little take up of stakeholder pensions unless compulsion is introduced.

Prudential, the UK based insurer and pension provider, has taken legal action to halt US insurer AIG from continuing what it calls the illegal interference in its merger deal with American General.

Foreign & Colonial Ventures has backed a £29m management buy-in of Reckitt Benckiser's European Ignition Products.

Life assurance industry bodies in the UK are divided as to how genetic test results could affect the purchase of annuities in the future following the publishing of the House of Commons Science and Technology select committee report on genetics and insurance....

Millions of UK consumers could miss out on the tax benefits of stakeholder pensions because they wrongly think that they are not eligible, a new survey shows.

TRW Pensions Trust in the UK has purchased two property investments in Maidstone and Wantage totalling £20m.

Helen Whitbread, former deputy pensions manager at Uniq, has been promoted to group pensions manager.

The UK-based Alfred McAlpine Pension Plan has appointed Attica Asset Management and Black Rock to oversee part of its £240m fund.

Large UK companies may soon have to publish environmental reports following the intoduction of a revised voting policy by Morley Fund Management, the UK based asset management subsidiary of CGNU.