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Industry gets behind PP call to arms on decent defaults

Pension funds could soon have to bear the cost of a Europe-wide tax on equity, bonds, 
currency and derivative transactions, finds Lynn Strongin Dodds

Andrew Short looks at schemes' increasing involvement in shareholder activism, led by the revolt against News Corp, and asks if it is just the larger schemes that can engage on this issue

Andrew Short looks at the number of threats to the cashflows of the Local Government Pension Scheme

Frank Klein discusses the continued relevance of climate change issues in investing

Anna Copestake of Sackers discusses legal issues around statutory employers.

Andrew Short considers the value of absolute return bond funds in overcoming the low returns caused by a stagnating economy

More and more pension funds are making their securities lending programmes work harder for them by expanding into emerging markets, as Helen Fowler reports

Kenneth Trench looks back at how collective silence among City professionals gave Maxwell free rein to gamble with the savings of thousands of pensioners

As a founder trustee of the Maxwell Pensioners Trust, Jane Newell played a key role gaining settlements for 32,000 scheme members. Here are her personal recollections of the Maxwell years