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CLERICAL Medical is urging financial advisors to ensure that retirement annuity contract clients take advantage of carry back rules before they are abolished.

THE UK is set to slip down European pension rankings as costs and regulation force firms to quit final salary schemes, Aon Consulting warns.

BRITISH AIRWAYS has released details of its recovery plan thrashed out with unions to close the £2.1bn deficit in its largest staff pension scheme, the New Airways Pensions Scheme.

THE PENSIONS Regulator has cleared printer Polestar to sever ties with its pension scheme in return for a payment of £45m.

OVERALL pension deficits in the UK almost halved from £72bn to £41bn in 2006, research reveals.

LESS than a third of defined contribution scheme members understand how asset classes work, research shows.

ANALYSTS are divided over whether commodities are entering 2007 in the early stages of a bull market or if 2006's record prices signal the beginning of downturn.

LEGAL opinion by a high-profile QC suggests the Financial Services Authority and Equitable Life may have misled policyholders in 2001.

BARCLAYS Capital is offering institutional investors call options on a basket of hedge funds to get around the "cumbersome negotiations" often associated with investing in the asset class.

THE ASSOCIATION of British Insurers director of life and pensions Chris Kenny has left his post to pursue new challenges.