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A Chinese delegation has held talks with The Pensions Trust on pension provision for smaller and not-for-profit organisations.

Investment managers are failing to make full use of derivatives - despite their growing popularity - due to "operational limitations", research shows.

Employee discount specialist Asperity has launched a new Christmas incentive product to meet employers' demands for better value from incentive gifts.

Schemes have bought more derivatives so far this year than in the whole of 2006, Watson Wyatt says.

Watson Wyatt retained

The Conservatives will set up a pensions lifeboat fund to compensate scheme wind-up victims within three months of winning the next election, the party says.

Only 14pc of trustees are "completely confident" with their schemes' current actuarial assumptions, research from buyout specialist Paternoster reveals.

UK - The Office of Manpower Economics has issued a tender for a pensions consultant.

UK - Watson Wyatt has switched its defined benefit (DB) scheme from final salary, to career average, and raised the retirement age from 60 to 65.

PENSIONS minister Mike O'Brien has branded Conservatives plans to re-float the pension lifeboat fund as "fantasy financing".