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THE ACCOUNTING Standards Board has issued proposals to force firms using accounting standard FRS17 to disclose more information about their defined benefit pension schemes.

Low-paid hit hardest

HEDGE fund providers - battered by volatile markets last month - have rejected claims they could be doomed if inflation and interest rates rise as "utterly wrong".

THE UNIVERSITIES Superannuation Scheme is taking a bigger equity bet than any hedge fund insurance company, a leading consultant warns.

THE PENSIONS Regulator has issued returns from 8500 defined contribution schemes to find those that merit a "closer look".

MANY schemes have failed to take full advantage of April's A-Day tax changes because the rules were not published in time, an administrator claims.

THE WHITE Paper proposals have been broadly welcomed by Pensions Commission chairman Lord Turner.

NEW players in the bulk annuity buyout market will lead to innovative solutions such as partial risk transfers and mortality swaps, a consultant predicts.

THE GOVERNMENT'S pension reforms will take total costs for businesses past £8bn, consultants say.

THE GOVERNMENT is facing a judicial review over its changes to the Local Government Pension Scheme.