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Human resources departments increasingly favour shared services centres, research by Hewitt Associates shows.

Bond market volatility has jumped to the highest level since the Long-Term Capital Manage­ment crisis of 1998, Investec Asset Management claims.

Radical plans to overhaul railway pensions have been unveiled by the Railway Pensions Commission.

THE Pensions Action Group is "anxiously awaiting" tomorrow's conclusion of its judicial review against the government.

Funding for police pensions needs a major overhaul, a Scottish councillor claims.

The Spanish government is set to sell inflation-linked 10-year bonds to pension funds.

New York City pension funds are leading a major initiative to rid the workplace of bias and discrimination.

Friends Provident is to reinvent itself as a specialist pensions and life cover provider following the appointment of former Standard Life UK chief Trevor Matthews.

Deutsche Bank's exchange traded funds supermarket - db x-trackers - has launched two funds which track sterling and the US Fed rate.

UK/US - JPMorgan has been chosen to provide currency hedging for two major pension funds either side of the Atlantic.