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SCHEMES are not using matching or hedging strategies to reduce liability risk, Pension Protection Fund research reveals.

PERSONAL accounts will fail unless contribution rates and management charges are increased, T Rowe Price warns.

UK - Pension funds' views of consultants have been revealed in the first survey of its kind in the UK, at the NAPF's Investment Conference in Edinburgh.

US - Duff Capital Advisors (DCA), a specialist institutional investment advisory, management and buyout firm, has launched in the US.

US - Consultancy Wilshire has released the results of its annual survey into the health of some 125 state retirement systems.

Firefighters take on pension rules; Hedge fund fears push up Libor rates; Sterling near record low before rate decision; Time for chancellor to enforce more efficiency

THREE firefighters will take their pensions battle against the government to the High Court today.

UK -The Firebrigade's Union (FBU) has launched a legal challenge against a government ruling that has left some badly injured or disabled firefighters without pension rights.

UK - Xafinity Consulting has been appointed by Burger King to improve pension scheme services for its members.

US - Five companies have been urged to adopt a majority vote standard in director elections, in a shareholder proposal from the New York City pension funds.