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Schemes will not investigate the use of derivatives and swaps unless trustees are educated about them, delegates were told.

Aberdeen Property Investors has launched a Russian property fund targeting pension schemes and other institutional investors.

STAKEHOLDER pensions are no longer the cheapest option and offer "very limited" investment choice, Hargreaves Lansdown has said.

Final salary schemes could be among casualties of the fallout from the US sub-prime mortgage crisis, consultants warn.

Journalists at a regional newspaper group have been given salary increases following the closure of their final salary pension scheme.

A Chinese delegation has held talks with The Pensions Trust on pension provision for smaller and not-for-profit organisations.

Investment managers are failing to make full use of derivatives - despite their growing popularity - due to "operational limitations", research shows.

Watson Wyatt retained

The Conservatives will set up a pensions lifeboat fund to compensate scheme wind-up victims within three months of winning the next election, the party says.

Only 14pc of trustees are "completely confident" with their schemes' current actuarial assumptions, research from buyout specialist Paternoster reveals.