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PENSION schemes are being "left in the dark" about companies' policies on equal pay a new survey has claimed.

UK - Schroders has launched a third generation liability driven investment (LDI) platform aimed at reducing investment uncertainties by bringing a closer match to assets and liabilities.

THE PENSIONS Action Group is to hold a protest outside Parliament on Wednesday to coincide with Gordon Brown's final budget.

MORLEY Fund Management has launched a UK equity long-short hedge fund in a bid to grow its absolute return offering.

THE PENSION Protection Fund has appointed five fund managers to help increase its assets to £5bn over the next two years.

PENSIONS firms are failing to prepare for business disruption despite recording a "dramatic increase" in the level of upheaval, research by the Chartered Management Institute reveals.

UK - Unions and age charities have voiced their opposition to the Department of Work and Pensions' (DWP) proposal to limit annual contributions to personal pension savings.

Insurers attack new pensions scheme; PPF opts for managers; Buy-outs lay legal pitfalls for trustees; Call to overhaul pension relations

UK - Ed Balls, economics secretary to the treasury, has been accused of taking advantage of pension funds after he promised more long-dated gilts to the UK pensions industry.

Anger mounts over timetable of pensions review; Pension funds urged to consider more class actions; Government to fight court pensions ruling; Don't undermine workplace pensions, government warned; Balls says gilts "skew" to continue; Atkins shuts scheme...