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Time to take a stand over double standards

A QUARTER of small firms will revise their pension arrangements or abandon them altogether because of the cost of proposed reforms, a new survey reveals.

Rejection questioned

FORMER fighter pilots are launching a fund-raising initiative to help scheme wind-up victims in their campaign for compensation.

TRAINEE and experienced pilots have vowed to stick together in their fight against British Airways' pension proposals.

INVESTORS should oppose a new executive incentive plan at transport group Arriva because it does not demand a substantial increase in performance, governance experts say.

PENSION contributions at the UK's biggest 100 firms soared by 30pc last year, latest analysis by Watson Wyatt reveals.

ENGINEERING group Rolls-Royce will pay £500m into its final salary pension schemes if members agree to their closure to new entrants.

SWITZERLAND - Swiss pension funds continued to reduce domestic bond and equity holdings while increasing allocations to their foreign counterparts in the first quarter of 2006.

NEWS group Reuters is planning to "de-risk" the investment strategy of its UK defined benefit pension scheme.