ABI

The Treasury has confirmed new European rules outlawing the use of gender in underwriting will not affect policies taken out before 21 December 2012.

There will not be a ban on age-based insurance pricing in the near future, the director general of the Government Equalities Office says.

Government has launched an urgent review of equity investments after business secretary Vince Cable warned short-termism was risking the financial security of pension scheme members.

The Institutional Investor Committee has confirmed the membership of its newly-formed Advisory Council.

The Institutional Investor Committee has urged companies to challenge the costs of rights issues fees in a bid to get best value for shareholders.

UK - We ask the UK industry its views on the coalition's performance on pensions a year after it came to power.

The government must concentrate on deregulation and communications to make it easier for employers to provide good quality pensions and for people to save more, the industry says.

The government has set out its intention to "transform pension saving" with the launch of a green paper consultation on a flat-rate state pension.

The Hutton Report has been welcomed by the industry, which claims it could increase pensions for the low paid, but left unions warning of industrial action.

Aegon UK chief executive Otto Thoresen has been appointed as director general of the ABI and will take up his new role on April 4.