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Consultants have welcomed new proposals that would enable schemes to recover pension-sharing costs when relationships breakdown.

Revised life and pension fund sector definitions have been set out by the Association of British Insurers to reflect changes in the industry.

The Citizens Advice Bureau is to close its final salary scheme after its deficit doubled in three years.

Terminally ill people will be given early access to pension savings, if an MP's private member's Bill succeeds.

Henderson Global Investors has released a guide to regulations on the EU undertakings for collective investments in transferable securities directive.

Watson Wyatt dominates the market for property fund investments by the biggest UK corporate pension fund clients.

EUROPE - New figures highlighting the damage caused by the sub prime crisis reveal that the tidal wave of redemptions from institutional and retail investors amounted to €70bn.

Defined benefit schemes have an aggregated surplus of £44bn, latest figures from the Pension Protection Fund show.

Over the last three months, the contagion of the sub-prime market has burst the debt bubble. As a res...

Pensions are going to be a major battleground at the next general election - whenever prime minister Gordon Brown finally decides to go to the polls.