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THE STERN review makes clear pension schemes have a fiduciary duty to consider climate change when making investment decisions, Insight Investment says.

SENIOR company management must tackle pensions issues in a more proactive way, financial services firm Price-waterhouseCoopers warns.

STANDARD Life UK life and pensions sales rose 35pc on 2005 to almost £1bn during the first nine months of the year, latest company figures reveal.

THE COMBINED pensions deficit of the UK's 200 largest defined benefit schemes rose by £1bn in October to £52bn, Aon Consulting says.

LANE Clark & Peacock has launched a "prudence index" which allows trustees to compare their funding position to other schemes.

In last week's Professional Pensions, a headline incorrectly stated there were Fears for scheme viability as Remploy factories close.

FORMER Barclays Private Bank global sales director Jan Floyd-Douglass has been appointed as head of corporate pensions at Zurich, PP can reveal.

LABOUR MP Tony Wright has called on the government to create a rescue package for scheme wind-up victims.

TRADE union Unison is planning a special conference to discuss proposed changes to the Local Government Pension Scheme.

Reforms in US pension accounting standards are set to lead to tougher restrictions on how publicly-listed UK firms report their pension position.