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Prudential M&G has launched a new fund aimed at giving schemes easier access to secured debt.

JPMorgan Asset Management has launched four 130/30 funds targeted at pension schemes and other institutional investors.

Strong governance is "clearly linked" to superior performance among the world's leading institutional investors, research has found.

The Scottish Parliamentary Pension Scheme is to undergo a wholesale review ahead of implementing new rules specific to Holyrood.

The Scottish Public Pensions Authority has confirmed changes to the NHS pension scheme which will come into effect in April, 2008.

The Financial Services Authority has published a briefing paper in a bid to prepare the industry for the introduction of the European Union's Solvency II legislation.

GERMANY - Crédit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM) has announced the opening of a new branch office in Frankfurt to specifically cater for the German and Austrian markets as part of renewed efforts to expand into the heart of Europe.

Around 95pc of self-invested personal pension investments do not contain any gearing despite changes introduced on A-Day allowing borrowing of up to 50pc of the fund value, research shows.

Aegon Scottish Equitable has backed government inheritance tax changes which it claims will maintain the attractiveness of alternatively secured pensions.

The link between the state pension and average earnings should be restored before 2012, the GMB union has urged.