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SCRAPPING contracted-out rebates for defined contribution schemes will take £3bn a year out of company schemes, Standard Life warns.

NEW principles on pre-emption rights for shareholders have been welcomed as "a good deal" for institutional investors by the National Association of Pension Funds.

RETAIL giant Marks & Spencer's net liability on its defined benefit pension scheme has increased by £118.9m in the last year.

SWITZERLAND - The federal authorities could lose up to CHF833m (roughly e534m / £366m) each year if a plan to re-direct Swiss National Bank profits to the AHV national pension scheme goes ahead.

A COMPREHENSIVE study on individual and group personal pensions has been launched by Defaqto.

THE PROPOSED National Pension Savings Scheme is "fraught with danger", a consultant claims.

A-Day trivial commutation rules need tweaking to ensure Local Government Pension Scheme members do not lose out on means-tested benefits when they retire, delegates at the second NAPF local authority conference heard.

EMPLOYEES of almost 2500 "external bodies" are eligible to join the local government pension scheme, new figures reveal.

RADICAL plans to run the Local Government Pension Scheme on a pay-as-you-go basis are being drawn up by trade unionists, NAPF local authority conference delegates heard.

RAIL unions are urging employers to accept that an independent commission should decide the future of the pension scheme.