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UK - The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has confirmed it will no longer allow companies to use the corridor method in their accounting.

UK - The National Association of Pension Funds is set to launch a major review into the standards used for accounting for pensions.

The National Association of Pension Funds is set to launch a major review into the standards used for accounting for pensions.

Schemes need to go "back to basics" and re-think investment strategies, delegates heard.

An increasing move towards income drawdown could reduce the number of bonds needed in the future by half, AllianceBernstein says.

Most employees still see a pension as the best way to save for retirement but only a third are confident it will provide an adequate retirement, latest research from the National Association of Pension Funds reveals.

I'm writing this month's piece on the eve of the Global Pensions Awards 2010. Tomorrow night's events are the culmination of months of work, not only from the judges and pension funds who took the time to nominate their providers, but from the asset managers...

A conservative investment approach meant Brazilian pensions suffered only minor scrapes during the crisis, but too-strong funding levels bring problems of their own, as Dorothee Gnaedinger reports

Rodrigo Amaral speaks to Wagner Pinheiro, president of Petros, Brazil's second largest complementary pension fund, about positioning his portfolio to tap the booming equity market and to take advantage of more flexible regulations

Brazil's conservative economic policy has helped the country shed its image as one for the faint-hearted investor to ignore, as Rodrigo Amaral reports