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Institutional investors should be worried about the dominance of "the Big Four" audit firms, governance experts say.

RAIL unions have handed employers an April 28 deadline to "unconditionally" agree to their pensions proposals or face simultaneous strike ballots.

MEMBERS of occupational pension scheme members spend more time scrutinising household bills than their annual benefit statement, a new survey says.

THE government's high turnover of pension ministers has exacerbated the long-term savings crisis in the UK, independent financial advisers claim.

TRUSTEES of the £1.5bn BAA pension scheme have met with Spanish construction firm Ferrovial to seek assurances over members' benefits.

PENSION contributions at the UK's biggest 100 firms soared by 30pc in 2005, latest analysis by Watson Wyatt reveals.

SWITZERLAND - Georges Gagnebin and Charles Stonehill were elected to the Julius Baer Holdings board of directors and chairman Raymond Baer was re-elected for another three-year term at the company's AGM yesterday.

Schemes with more than 1000 members face paying a levy for regulating the actuarial profession.

MORE than a million people are expected to strike over plans to reduce public sector pensions in a region-by-region rolling programme this month.

A new code governing the appointment of member-nominated trustees could allow companies to exclude staff members from trustee boards, independent trustees warns.