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EUROPE - Industry experts have predicted a cautious time for private equity as part of a review of the alternative investment market in the second half of 2007.

CONSERVATIVE plans to boost defined benefit provision in the UK overlooks the importance of securing benefits and could even lead to "fiddled figures", an independent consultant has said.

THE RHONDDA Cynon Taf local authority pension scheme is to diversify its investment portfolio to include property and active currency mandates from next month.

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LEGISLATION on maternity pay is making employers think twice about employing women, research shows.

DEPARTING pensions ombudsman David Laverick shied away from difficult cases and did not live up to the work of his predecessor, lawyers claim.

THE GOVERNMENT is proposing to overhaul regulations which prevent UK companies from making pension contributions to employees based overseas, PP has learned.

CITIGROUP's acquisition of the £200m Thomson Regional Newspaper Pension Fund will "throw the business model" of traditional buyout specialists into doubt, an adviser claims.

FOUR Capital Partners is set to launch a long/short UK equity fund for UK schemes in the fourth quarter this year, PP can reveal.

Here they are - the shortlist for the Rising Star of Fund Management category of Professional Pensions' inaugural Specialist and Alternative Investment Manager Awards.