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The government used Budget documents to restate its intention to "end the practice of disguised remuneration", including employer-financed retirement benefit schemes.

Threatened strike action at Ford has been called off after unions backed down following a row over future pension indexation.

A majority of scheme managers believe giving members early access to their pension funds would not encourage greater levels of saving over the long term.

Failure to reform the £30bn Universities Superannuation Scheme could be stalling a potential merger between the scheme and university Self-Administered Trusts.

Government officials have rejected Lord John Hutton's suggestion local authority schemes need to improve their standards of governance, claiming they are good enough already.

The concept of ethical investing is holding back the growth of environmental markets because it confuses investors, an environmental fund manager says.

Public sector pension schemes must ‘bite the bullet' on planned reform because the changes are necessary to ensure fairness to taxpayers, Lord Hutton told delegates.

EUROPE - The European Central Bank's anticipated interest rate rise is a "largely symbolic" move to make it appear to be tackling inflation, Schroders head of European equities Rory Bateman believes.

Pension fund investors have not learnt the lessons of the financial crisis and are still failing to model asset risk properly, a fixed income manager says.

The £1.6bn Environment Agency Pension Fund has cut the environmental impact of its equity investments by almost a third while still exceeding its benchmark.