NAPF

This is the first time in I don't know how many years that I have not gone up to Edinburgh for the NAPF conference. And I have to say I am going to miss it.

UK - The National Association of Pension Funds is set to launch a major review into the standards used for accounting for pensions.

The National Association of Pension Funds is set to launch a major review into the standards used for accounting for pensions.

Schemes need to go "back to basics" and re-think investment strategies, delegates heard.

GLOBAL/EUROPE - The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) has criticised the Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM) directive for reducing European Union institutional investors' access to private equity investments.

Most employees still see a pension as the best way to save for retirement but only a third are confident it will provide an adequate retirement, latest research from the National Association of Pension Funds reveals.

The industry has lambasted proposals to restrict higher-rate tax relief for those earning more than £130,000.

Yesterday (March 3), the government closed its consultation on plans to restrict higher-rate tax relief on pension contributions from April 2011.

Electrical specialist Comet is the latest scheme to receive the National Association of Pension Funds pension quality mark.

Tom Selby looks at The Pensions Regulator's refusal to allow Reader's Digest UK to avoid administration