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Trustees are right to consider unborn children as dependants when making death-in-service payouts, the High Court has ruled.

THE £1bn Wiltshire County Council Pension Fund is set to make its first foray into currency in a bid to reduce volatility and boost returns.

SCHEMES will have to look at "complex" alternatives to bonds because demand is rapidly outstripping supply, financial services giant KPMG warns.

THE department for work and pensions wants to clarify age discrimination rules in a bid to reduce the legal and financial risks of running schemes.

THE Association of British Insurers has denied claims its chairman excused providers of any role in contracting-out mis-selling by laying blame at the feet of advisers.

A "BATTLE of the blogs" has broken out between pension reform minister James Purnell and Scottish Life head of pensions strategy Steve Bee.

COMPANIES seeking to cut pensions costs by changing future benefit provision are struggling with the "proliferation of consultation" requirements, lawyers warn.

Newham seeks managers

Commutation of trivial pensions was one of the many areas where the move to the new tax regime on Apr...

Accounting standard FRS17 has trapped schemes in a "vicious circle" of higher bond demand and lower yields, a new report warns.