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In recent years microfinance has steadily risen in significance. However, it is not on everyone's radar and questions remain about its sustainability, as Alison Swersky reports

Hedging currency exposures can have as large an impact on the wealth of a portfolio as return-generating strategies, delegates at the Global Pensions Currency Management Forum in London heard.

As details of NEST emerge, LAURA BLOWS questions whether it is looking likely to provide a decent pension pot for low to mid-earners

In the first of two features detailing the first meeting of our DC World Steering Club, Helen Morrissey asks how investment strategies are evolving

Advisers need to ensure customers with small pensions funds are treated fairly, writes Andrew Megson, managing director of retirement at Partnership.

Sebastian Cheek discovers an industry in favour of scrapping compulsory annuitisation at 75 but one that says the new coalition must do more to address the wider tax framework around retirement savings

Yesterday PP revealed The Pensions Advisory Service is utilising default retirement age legislation to get rid of long serving technical director Des Hamilton.

With a forthcoming European Commission consultation expected to put the spotlight on pensions legislation, Brian Holden calls for cosmetic system changes to be replaced by a ‘drastic upgrade' of governance

Charlotte Moore surveys the impact of the financial crisis on the corporate bond market

Toby Nangle questions the Treasury's policy of holding back supply of inflation-linked gilts