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THE GOVERNMENT is refusing to amend new regulations that hold administrators liable if members breach the £1.5m lifetime allowance.

European Union plans to harmonise governance standards could jeopardise the UK's "comply or explain" regime, governance experts fear.

PLANS to establish a new-look Local Government Pension Scheme by April 2008 are "wholly unrealistic", West Midlands Pension Scheme chief pensions officer Mike Woodall claims.

Threatening scheme wind-up campaigners with unlimited legal costs is another "underhand attempt by the government" to deny them justice, independent adviser Ros Altmann claims.

INSTITUTIONAL investors are being let down by "insufficient, incomplete and backward-looking" company reporting on climate change, a new study claims.

THREE MPs have held a briefing for their colleagues on scheme wind-up victims.

Four scheme wind-up victims could bring the Pension Protection Fund to its knees if the European Court of Justice upholds their claim, industry experts warn.

INSTITUTIONAL investors should be obliged to disclose their holdings in derivatives, the Association of British Insurers says.

FINANCE directors and treasurers should not play a role on trustee boards because of a conflict of interest, industry experts claim.

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