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PROPERTY investment has "massively outperformed the stock markets" in the past 12 years with returns of more than 1200pc, Assetz claims.

PEERS have voted through an amendment to the Pensions Bill allowing people to buy back up to nine years of "lost" national insurance contributions at retirement.

CIVIL service workers are being urged to accept the closure of their final salary pension and replace it with a career average plan.

Journalists agree deal

GENERIC advice about personal accounts could lead to millions of people being "financially excluded" from pension saving, Scottish Life warns.

UK - The UK Social Investment Forum (UKSIF) has launched a free online sustainable pensions library for occupational pension funds.

UK - A report from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has confirmed the fall in private sector occupational defined benefit (DB) scheme membership.

EMPLOYERS will face higher costs when new legislation on holiday entitlement comes into force in October, lawyers warn.

The Pensions Regulator will release the findings of its 2007 governance survey tomorrow.

CREDIT Agricole Asset Management has renamed Crédit Agricole Funds, its Luxembourg-based umbrella fund, to CAAM Funds.