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GLOBAL - Emerging economies would face a systemic crisis if foreign investors, who own one-third of EM local currency debt markets, begin to pull out their cash, fund managers have warned.

UK - Advisers have welcomed plans to introduce a compulsory code of practice for insurers which is designed to encourage consumers to shop around for an appropriate annuity when they approach retirement.

AUSTRALIA/EUROPE - The head of Australia's sovereign wealth fund has launched a harsh attack on eurozone's political class, saying the bloc's debt crisis stemmed from "a failure of government to understand the nature of financial markets and to stop the...

UK - Schemes with liability- driven investment strategies could shave one-third off their Pension Protection Fund levy payments by doing a "bespoke" analysis of investment risk, LCP says.

GLOBAL: UN Joint Staff Pension Fund; Fidelity; SGSS;F&C; Alliance Bernstein; PBGC; BlackRock; Wurts & Associates; Kas Bank

Schemes with liability- driven investment strategies could shave one-third off their Pension Protection Fund levy payments by doing a "bespoke" analysis of investment risk, LCP says.

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Advisers have welcomed plans to introduce a compulsory code of practice for insurers which is designed to encourage consumers to shop around for an appropriate annuity when they approach retirement.

RMT will join other unions, including GMB, Unite and Unison, in balloting for strike action over changes to public sector pensions.

Here they are... Some of the best pictures from the Professional Pensions Show 2011, held at London's ExCel Centre on Wednesday and Thursday last week.