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Should the Pension Protection Fund take investment strategies into account when calculating risk-based levies?

The Irish National Pension Reserve Fund is reviewing its exposure to manufacturers of cluster bombs with the view to possibly disinvest.

Alliance Trust has urged professional advisers to take advantage of tax saving opportunities to enhance their clients' pension arrangements.

Brown Advisory has opened a London office in a bid to expand its UK and European client base.

The government has announced changes that will allow people to take very small benefits from occupational pension schemes as a lump sum.

The Personal Accounts Delivery Authority is planning to consult on scheme rules, fund structures and investment choice, delegates heard.

Scheme managers are split over whether plans by The Pensions Regulator to include mortality assumptions as a funding trigger are a good idea.

Removing investment restrictions on protected rights in self-invested personal pensions would create a level playing field for providers and clients, Hazell Carr says.

One over-riding tenet of government is that it always believes it can do everything so much better than anyone else.

Changes to employer debt regulations have done little to achieve deregulation of the "overburdened" pensions industry, consultants say.