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Aberdeen Property Investors is planning to re-enter the UK property market through winning segregated mandates and developing its own suite of products.

Employee benefit and pensions consultant Xafinity Consulting has launched a transaction services practice to assess scheme risk.

A "LETHAL cocktail" of tax changes, increased regulation, low bond yields and interference with investment policy has almost destroyed defined benefit provision, the Conservatives claim.

CANADA - The Canada Pension Plan (CPP) has committed €400m (US$539.4m) to the ProLogis European Properties Fund II in an effort to build up its real estate allocation.

PUBLIC sector union Unison is urging ministers to extend protection for all council workers under the so-called Rule of 85 until 2020.

VICTIMS of the collapse of Equitable Life have called on the Chancellor to hand over compensation, two months after a European Parliament report.

Trustees will be breaking the law next month if they fail to give members an update of current funding levels, a pensions lawyer warns.

UK - The sub-prime crisis could actually enable pension funds to improve their funding positions, claim some industry professionals.

US - The Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board (PRIM) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) to provide the fund with international real estate securities investment management services.

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