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THE NATIONAL Association of Pension Funds and Trust Associates have teamed up to launch a service to help trustee boards recruit experienced professionals with investment and other skills.

AUSTRALIA - Australian superannuation fund assets have quadrupled over the past 10 years to approximately A$1tn, according to Watson Wyatt Investment consulting.

Single parents should have a legal right to request flexible working if tougher benefit rules are imposed, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development claims.

MERCER Investment Consulting and Deutsche Bank have teamed up to launch a multi-manager currency investment product.

THE GOVERNMENT risks leaving thousands of older women financially stranded unless it introduces state pension reform retrospectively, Age Concern warns.

LOCAL authority pension funds are set to initiate a major shareholder engagement campaign in a bid to improve company audit practices.

Two Labour MPs have used the Freedom of Information Act to prise more details about government compensation for scheme wind-up victims.

AIS gets AAA rating

A Conservative MP is urging the government not to put scheme wind-up victims through the trauma of a court battle to get compensation.

Schemes should look at emerging market debt denominated in local currencies for some of the best potential returns this year, PIMCO says.