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Two Labour MPs have used the Freedom of Information Act to prise more details about government compensation for scheme wind-up victims.

AIS gets AAA rating

A Conservative MP is urging the government not to put scheme wind-up victims through the trauma of a court battle to get compensation.

THE £28BN Universities Superannuation Scheme has led a group of 13 investors in an unprecedented attack on US executive pay practices.

THE FINANCIAL Services Compensation Scheme ex-pects to receive around 39,000 new claims in 2007-08.

Property is no substitute for a pension and should only be expected to deliver a "marginal supplement" to retirement income, a leading adviser warns.

THE NORTH Yorkshire Pension Fund has appointed UBS Global Asset Management to run a £49m global tactical asset allocation mandate.

Former Labour prime minister Harold Wilson once wryly observed that one man's wage rise is another man's price rise.

The government's new Pensions Bill may ease some of the problems with the current state pension system but it will not resolve them completely, a think-tank claims.

SLOWING growth expectations in the US and inflationary pressures in the UK are putting pressure on schemes' global equity holdings, Baring Asset Management says.