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Workshops for IFAs

CLERICAL Medical is urging financial advisers to ensure retirement annuity contract clients take advantage of carryback rules before they are abolished.

TRUSTEES risk failing scheme members by investing in with-profits funds, Kudos Financial Services warns.

PENSIONS Bill proposals that individuals should be allowed to contribute up to £5000 a year into personal pension accounts may be reconsidered, pensions reform minister James Purnell says.

PROPOSALS in the Pensions Bill which enable the conversion of guaranteed minimum pension rights into occupational schemes will be impossible to implement, employers warn.

Aberdeen criticised

TOO much pensions jargon can form a barrier between the industry and its customers, an independent consultant warns.

A LANDMARK ruling paves the way for companies to restructure without the risk of making their scheme ineligible for the Pension Protection Fund, lawyers believe.

The deadline is looming for entries for this year's UK Pensions Awards.

PENSION scheme deficits in the FTSE350 companies dropped by nearly a third in 2006, research by Mercer Human Resource Consulting shows.