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TRUSTEES of defined benefit pension funds can take "a lot of comfort" from the updated statement on scheme funding, claims The Pensions Regulator.

Pension funds' investments could be hit by a "post-credit binge hangover" in UK equities, Aberdeen Asset Managers warns.

GERMANY - The e38bn Bayerishche Versorgungskammer (BVK) pension fund has awarded State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) a e300m enhanced equity mandate.

THE government has got a hard job on its hands in swaying the public over raising the retirement age, an economics professor claims.

HALF of the UK's biggest firms could eliminate their entire pensions deficit within a year using surplus cash flow, latest analysis by KPMG Corporate Finance finds.

WOMEN feel there is no need to save into a pension because they will rely on their husband's income post retirement, research shows.

INVESTORS are taking advantage of post A-Day rule changes by sticking "really large cheques" into self-invested personal pensions, says a leading IFA.

A NEW deal for cleaners at Barclays Bank means they will now qualify for a defined contribution pension scheme.

MORE than a third of all enquiries to independent financial advisers during the first quarter of the year were on retirement planning.

Institutional investors should oppose the election of Martin Flanagan to the board of asset managers Amvescap, governance experts say.