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The Pensions Regulator must take more decisive action to educate trustees and employers about liability insurance, a survey by ACE European Group reveals.

Alex Beveridge talks to Nobel Prize laureate Harry Markowitz and Erik van Dijk (senior advisor and CEO at Netherlands-based Compendeon Investment Advisors respectively) about liquidity for pension funds, how to solve the current credit crisis and the...

The traditional asset classes of equities, bonds and cash are battling against an unusual cocktail of belligerently high inflation and slowing economic momentum. Julian Lyne explores the alternative investment solutions available to pension funds

Timber investment, previously confined to North American pension funds, has been finding a wider market in recent times. Dorothee Gnaedinger asks why

US - A Californian union pension scheme has won an appeal and sent a warning to employers over non-payment of contributions to sub-contracted workers.

Closest to the sub-prime storm and seen by many as strictly a passive play, US equities are not having an easy time of it. So how should pension funds approach the asset class? Heather Dale investigates

HUNGARY - Pension reforms in Hungary have been branded 'half-baked' by a senior official from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

UK - Buyout firms Paternoster and L&G dominate the UK market with 90% of all business, but industry insiders warn that present trading conditions are likely to be unsustainable in the long term.

MAN Investments has launched a new investment division specialising in financing projects that tackle environmental problems.

The downfall of Opes Prime, a Melbourne broker that engaged in securities lending and financing, has spurred calls for greater regulation to promote transparency into short selling and securities lending.