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MSCI Barra is to launch a global family of Islamic indices designed to reflect Sharia investment principles.

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TRUSTEES run unnecessary risks with members' pensions if they fail to review an employer's covenant or business plans regularly, an advisory service warns.

RCM and Royal London Asset Management have won combined mandates of £300m from the London Borough of Ealing.

Trustees must raise funding issues during takeover deals whether their scheme has a shortfall or not under new guidance from The Pensions Regulator.

THE PENSIONS industry will damage its reputation by failing to engage in the design of a generic financial advice system, Otto Thoresen warns.

PENSION reform will cut the number of pensioners relying solely on government guaranteed credit to around 6pc by 2050, official estimates show.

AUSTRIA - Hewitt Associates has bought Vienna-based human resources consulting company HeptaCon, expanding its Austrian HR consulting services in the process.

Insight Investment has published its first annual report on out how it integrates environmental, social and governance issues into its management and research processes.

STAMP duty on shares reduces a typical occupational pension scheme fund at retirement by up to £11,500, research shows.