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RAILPEN is poised to make its first investments in infrastructure in a bid to find assets that provide the inflation-linked returns it needs to pay pensions.

Who pays when PPF gets its sums wrong?

CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown's pledge to help people who lost Christmas savings when hamper firm Farepak collapsed "insults" pension scheme wind-up victims, campaigners claim.

THE PENSION Protection Fund had "painful" problems with its risk-based levy in its first year but is confident they have been resolved, delegates at the Professional Pensions Show 2006 heard.

ETFs need tax shelter

Scheme trustees and sponsors should consider ways to integrate funding and investment strategies, Aon Consulting says.

PREMIER Pension Services has teamed up with internet fund supermarket Fundsdirect to provide online trading facilities for holders of self-invested personal pensions.

AXA UK has announced that its recommended cash offer to buy Thinc Destini has been accepted.

FINANCIAL ADVICE improves annual pension income by £3000, an experiment by Axa reveals.

THE SWITCH to international financial reporting standards has revealed European banks face "significant financial risks" from their pension liabilities, Standard & Poor's says.