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THE GOVERNMENT has ann-ounced a programme of events to help employers develop awareness of disability issues.

Pensions Bill unveiled

Skandia Investment Management has restructured its European equity manager line-up with the addition of Argonaut and Alliance Bernstein.

Trustees of the Dubery pension fund are hopeful a landmark age discrimination ruling will be overturned by the Court of Appeal.

AllenbridgeEPIC Investment Advisers has been appointed as the investment adviser for the London Borough of Islington's pension fund.

ALL scheme wind-up victims could get 90pc of their core pension after the government promised to increase Financial Assistance Scheme funding.

CARDANO has opened its London office in a bid to provide UK schemes with an alternative to traditional investment consultants.

UK - Global Pensions understands that trustees at J Sainsbury plc's pension scheme would be keen to meet with Delta (Two) Limited, the Qatari-backed investment group which has approached the retail group.

UK - The West Midlands Metropolitan Pension Fund has awarded ING Real Estate a significant property mandate worth £560m (US$1.1bn).

NETHERLANDS - Diversification was the main reason the cabin staff and pilots KLM pension funds allocated 5% of their fixed income portfolios to long term UK corporate bonds, according to Blue Sky Group.