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Stranded carbon assets, poor staff management and concerns over working conditions pose significant financial risks to companies, Standard Life Investments (SLI) warns.

Trustees have been warned to ensure communications they send to members comply with the updated disclosure of information regulations from 6 April to avoid a £50,000 fine.

Imperial College London has become the first university in England to support its employees with access to emergency childcare and eldercare services.

Japan's Nikkei has dropped another 2.5% overnight as equity markets move further into the red following a fresh tapering announcement from the US Federal Reserve.

A series of shock rate hikes have failed to prevent a fresh sell-off in emerging market currencies, with developed market equities including the FTSE 100 also caught in the storm.

The leaders of the Office of Tax Simplification's review of the employee benefits and expenses system believe their "radical" recommendations will clean-up the current "complex and burdensome" rules and processes.

The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) has suggested a "pragmatic" cut to National Insurance Contribution (NICs) rates.

National IFA Lighthouse Group is set to launch a pension trust set up for multiple employers as it steps into the auto-enrolment market.

The top admin system providers have been unveiled in the Professional Pensions Administration Survey 2013.

Emerging markets (EM) continue to deliver good returns to pension funds but investors need to be more selective about which countries they choose, Capital Group says.