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Emerging market equities and bonds, and high yield bonds have served pension funds well in the last decade, research shows.

The Confederation of British Industry is urging the government to introduce a statutory override law to allow schemes to reduce accrual rates to offset the costs of state pension reforms.

Funding deficits and employer covenant have leapt to the top of the list of trustee's concerns this year, research shows.

State Street has been appointed by F&C Asset Management to provide investment manager operations outsourcing for £106bn in assets.

The government has hinted it will change rules around short service refunds after warning companies not to assume such refunds will continue in their current form.

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Public sector workers' resistance to pension reforms stems from a misunderstanding about how the changes will affect them, Hymans Robertson research reveals.

EUROPE - Pension funds and other institutional investors increased their fixed income allocation to their highest levels in five years while simultaneously paring down their equity exposure, research by Invesco shows.

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The European Commission has appointed Aon Hewitt as expert adviser for the possible establishment of a pan-European pension fund for researchers.