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RISING Pension Protection Fund levies are driving an increasing number of sponsors to offer schemes contingent assets, a leading lawyer claims.

JAPAN -The DIAM Group has beaten Barclays Global Investors (BGI) to become the largest Japanese pension fund manager.

AN ONLINE calculator that shows scheme members how much chancellor Gordon Brown cost them by scrapping advanced tax credits has been launched.

SWEDEN - Following the news earlier this week that AP7 had appointed Danske Bank to manage a SEK2bn (US$294.5m) alpha creation mandate, the fund's CIO has told Global Pensions it is very close to awarding further mandates.

HENDERSON Global Investors and F&C Asset Management are poised to launch diversified growth funds following the runaway success of rivals' products in 2006.

Labour MEPs have been accused of trying to wreck a European parliament committee report on the near-collapse of Equitable Life in 2000.

COMPANIES are unlikely to recruit top talent if they fail to understand what people want from a potential employer, new research shows.

AN AMENDMENT to the Pensions Bill to launch a "lifeboat fund" to help 125,000 scheme wind-up victims has been voted down in parliament.

SYNESIS Life has appointed F&C Asset Management as its investment manager.

Regulator's veto over trustees is 'ludicrous'