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Employee benefit consultants are finding it difficult to recommend the National Employment Savings Trust to clients because of its lack of track record.

Most schemes are satisfied with administration levels but providers must do more to ensure this becomes more widespread, Aon Hewitt research shows.

Laws giving Scotland the power to set its own income tax will seriously undermine pension schemes, a consultant warns.

A host of pension funds have poured more than £100m into Legal & General Property's Limited Price Inflation Income Property Fund.

Defined benefit sponsors should be more imaginative with scheme design and move to 1/120th accrual rates with contracting-in to stop the death of final salary, an actuary argues.

European equities are trading at their biggest discount rate to US stocks since the early 1990s, challenging investor sentiment favouring US over euro stocks, BNP Paribas analysts say.

Government rules on the amount of income men and women can drawdown from pensions could become redundant on Tuesday - just days after revised tables were published.

Transferring short service refunds into the National Employment Savings Trust would help level the playing field between contract and trust-based schemes, an expert says.

Inflows into fixed income will slow this year as fears over duration risk drive investors into other asset classes, rating agency Fitch says.

UK commercial property capital growth rates improved just 0.1% last month as stagnating yields and rents continued to contribute to a "lacklustre" market, Investment Property Databank says.