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PENSION fund trustees should accept more input from their corporate sponsors when making decisions on pension fund asset allocation, Lane Clark & Peacock says.

SWITZERLAND - Consultants in Switzerland have welcomed draft law changes to improve regulation.

AN INVESTIGATION into the powers scheme trustees actually hold should be launched in the wake of the Boots KKR deal, an MP says.

Retirees welcome the choice of flexible US-style annuities when considering the most appropriate retirement income plan, financial advisers have said.

WORKERS aged 40 today who leave work in their 60s will be seen as taking "early retirement", pensions minister John Hutton has told an influential think-tank.

Chief Financial Ombudsman, Walter Merricks has been awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

THE PENSIONS REGULATOR has published determination notices indicating the intention to issue its first financial support direction to Sea Containers.

TRUSTEES of the Boots Pension Scheme have finally thrashed out an agreement on funding and security with the company's new private equity owners Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

THE REGISTRATION process for the 8th annual Professional Pensions Show - to be held at Excel in London on November 21 and 22 - is now open.

THE TRADES Union Congress has launched a searchable database to allow trustees to find out how fund managers voted at company annual general meetings.