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LIFETIME allowance "protection" certificates are unlikely to be issued in time for members who want to retire this month, Shell warns.

INCLUDING aviation in the next round of the EU's carbon emissions trading scheme will boost sector results long term, pension funds have been told.

AN INDEPENDENT review of all public sector pensions is needed to achieve "sustainable" reforms, Liberal Democrats claim.

Nationwide rail strikes seem inevitable because employers and the government have "closed the door" on talks to resolve the pensions dispute, unions claim.

UNIONS have announced the dates for future strikes over changes to the Local Govern-ment Pension Scheme.

SIPPs set to rocket

EXTENDING the Pension Protection Fund to provide compensation for earlier scheme wind-up victims should never become an option, a former NAPF chairman warns.

London Pensions Fund Authority chief executive Peter Scales is set to retire at the end of 2006.

STRONG employers regard the Pension Protection Fund's risk-based levy as "dead money" that would be better spent on servicing deficits, a scheme manager claims.

THREE_QUARTERS of schemes have introduced changes that allow members to take higher cash lump sums under today's A-Day changes, research shows.