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THE TREASURY will make an announcement on alternatively secured pensions in its pre-Budget report, the economic secretary says.

WORK and pensions secretary John Hutton will be one of the key speakers at the Association of British Insurers' Saver Summit next month.

SCHEME wind-up victims fighting the government for compensation have been granted a High Court hearing next year.

CAPITA Hartshead has added to its police pensions portfolio after being appointed administrator of the Gwent Police Pensions scheme.

LESS THAN half of young workers expect an occupational pension scheme to be among their main sources of income in retirement, new research reveals.

ANNUITY rates could plummet as more people with small savings take their pension as a cash lump sum, Standard Life claims.

AROUND 700 staff members at the department for work and pensions will be transferred to a private company as part of a modernisation programme.

Sales tipped to fall

A CLUTCH of European property funds - worth a combined billion euros - could provide UK fund-of-funds with a rich source of assets as they wind-up in 2007, Schroder Property says.

Running a national pension savings scheme at a cost of 0.3pc will not be achieved "for years, if at all", Australian senator Nick Sherry has warned.