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EUROCLEAR UK & Ireland plans to implement record-breaking fee reductions of £11.8m in 2008.

PENSIONS secretary Peter Hain has announced a new package of help for up to 140,000 people who lost savings when their employer-sponsored pension schemes collapsed.

SMALL bespoke self-invested personal pension providers are at the greatest risk of going out of business as a result of market consolidation, JLT Benefit Solutions says.

WEIR GROUP has agreed to sell off part of its £550m pension scheme to Legal & General.

THE BOARD for Actuarial Standards is set to hold meetings in London and Edinburgh to discuss its proposals for a new framework for technical actuarial standards.

DUBAI PORTS World - the owner of the P&O shipping group -has appointed Paternoster to provide the future pensions for 11,000 retired members of the P&O scheme.

Peter Murray has been elected as the chairman of the Occupational Pensions Defence Union's advisory council.

HM Revenue and Customs has told pension funds to file their 2006/07 scheme returns and event reports by January 31 2008 or risk a penalty.

UNIONS campaigning against BAA's plans to close its final salary pension scheme to new entrants have urged the company to back down.

RANK GROUP is set to transfer its defined benefit pension plan's assets and liabilities to an insurer.