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Battle lines are being drawn over the open market option as ministers are set to decide on reform this autumn.

AUSTRALIA - The ETF industry must focus on meeting the growing needs of institutional investors, Russell Investments believes.

Unions will lose their battle to retain Fair Deal pension rights for outsourced workers, lawyers predict.

The Financial Services Authority has changed its handbook to ensure consumers continue to be protected in the "significantly changed pensions landscape" after 2012.

This week: Robin Rowles, Director, Rowles Associates

A group of employers reluctant to fund a £370m industry-wide scheme deficit tried to reinstate a provision which would have terminated the pension fund.

Schemes will find opportunities in actively managed inflation-linked bonds next year due to the differential between RPI and CPI-linked bond yields, an asset manager claims.

UK core real estate could be heading for an asset price bubble as investors burnt by the 2007 crash continue to retreat into conservative property investments, BlackRock warns.

The long-term bull market on government bonds stretching back over three decades is over, a fixed income manager says.

Local government pension schemes are set to face increasing cashflow shortfalls as the LGPS starts to mature, council figures warn.