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Tim Jones of the UK's PADA talks to Elizabeth Pfeuti about the challenges and debates involved in implementing a new nation-wide pension scheme by 2012

SWITZERLAND - USB has issued CHF15bn (US$14.7bn) of capital following calls from shareholders, including Swiss pension fund Profound.

The Pension Scheme of the Year and Specialist and Alternative Investment Manager awards will be held on September 11 and November 28 respectively.

Fidelity redundancies to ‘manage costs'; SSRB is not concerned with cost of MPs' pensions; JC Flowers might quit its pursuit of Friends; Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein sees end of credit crisis

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