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INSURERS are backing the Financial Services Authority's principles-based approach to policing their industry in a bid to simplify regulation.

PRUDENTIAL could be usurped as the UK's leading annuity provider following Canada Life's "aggressive" move into the market, The Annuity Bureau believes.

PENSIONS have been chancellor Gordon Brown's biggest ever policy failure, Conservatives claim.

AUSTRIA - Mercer Human Resource Counsulting in Austria is lobbying for pension provision to be included in collective agreements across the chemical and construction industries.

DEFINED contribution schemes could face legal action from members who lose savings in default funds, trustees fear.

THE GOVERNMENT'S rejection of further accusations over its accountability for lost pensions has been dubbed "shameful" by campaigners.

EMPLOYERS must look at introducing innovative alternatives for defined contribution schemes if they want staff to value their pensions, a consultant claims.

THE PENSION Protection Fund will clear its £343m deficit within five years, chief executive Partha Dasgupta says.

THE PENSION Protection Fund took more than a year to bill the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme correctly for the 2005-06 levy, the fund claims.

Trustees of failed schemes should not be sniped at