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SCHEMES investing in global infrastructure funds face a dot com-style bubble, rating agency Standard & Poor's warns.

The government's aim to reach consensus on pension reform seems to have hit the buffers with its plans for personal accounts. And, as so often, a major stumbling block remains the vexed issue of means-testing.

ADOPTING a centrally administered model for personal accounts will cut down on "red tape", industry experts claim.

THE decision to scrap stamp duty levied on non-residential exchange-traded funds has been welcomed by the London Stock Exchange and fund managers.

A "minefield" of complicated legislative changes has seen company debt owed to schemes overvalued by as much as 30pc, lawyers claim.

ANNUITY and income drawdown purchases have reached a record high after a 32pc growth in the last quarter, new figures reveal.

Norwich Union is trying to trace more than 1000 former fisherman owed pensions from a scheme which collapsed when fishing declined.

THE CARBON Disclosure Project is urging more schemes to support its latest request for companies to reveal details of their greenhouse gas emissions.

MORE than half of independent financial advisers have disregarded products because they considered the provider was not strong enough to support them, new research reveals.

PLANS for a new NHS pension scheme face a high risk of failure, the British Medical Association warns.