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Workers face pension freeze at Corus steel plant3 September, 2010

Channel 4: Workers at the Corus steelworks in Teesside have been told their pensions may be frozen until they are 65 if the plant is sold to Thailand's biggest steelmaker, Nick Martin learns.

Scheme liabilities rocket3 September, 2010

Engaged Investor: Total private sector pension liabilities hit £1.2trn.

US jobless figures set to raise fears of double dip3 September, 2010

Independent: Investors are bracing themselves for another grim snapshot of the US labour market today, when the government is expected to confirm that unemployment is again on the rise.

Banks are cutting use of bonuses to recruit3 September, 2010

FT.com: Investment banks are using far fewer lucrative “guaranteed” bonus packages to attract recruits in response to the global regulatory crackdown on bank pay, according to a closely watched industry report.

TPR dealing with ‘gruesome’ aftermath of credit crunch3 September, 2010

Professional Pensions: The Pensions Regulator is facing a backlog of post-credit crunch funding disputes as trustees and companies attempt to plug scheme deficits.

Bankers' bonus tax failed, admits Alistair Darling3 September, 2010

Telegraph: The 50pc tax on bankers' bonuses brought in by the previous government failed to change the City's attitude to pay, Alistair Darling, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, has admitted.

Ben Bernanke: new regulations may prompt ' too big to fail' banks to break up3 September, 2010

Telegraph: America's wave of new financial regulation is likely to prompt the country's biggest financial institutions to break themselves up, according to the chairman of the Federal Reserve.

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Analysis

Political football and rational decisions

3 September, 2010

The Blair/Brown pensions argument shows why reform can never be perfect

100 days of rectitude

September 2010

The coalition has had a signifi cant economic impact in its fi rst quarter year in office – the full extent will become apparent over the coming months

Comment

Right to reply

September 2010

Behind closed doors in Westminster there is a revolution building.

Local largesse

September 2010

In the US as in the UK, the cost of meeting public sector pension liabilities is a problem says Philip Coggan

A landmark year?

September 2010

Pension funds must decide if their social, environmental and ethical investment practices are adequate, says Louise Rouse

Best of the commentators

September 2010

A summary of the best financial commentators

Bolt from the blue

August 2010

What started life as an obscure aside in the closing stages of the June emergency Budget has transformed into a lightening bolt for the whole pensions industry.

Pensions TV

Will the coalition really reinvigorate retirement?

1 July, 2010

Find out what Pensions Insight editor-in-chief Bob Campion thought about it on BBC Radio 4's Money Box

News

Workers face pension freeze at Corus steel plant

3 September, 2010

Channel 4: Workers at the Corus steelworks in Teesside have been told their pensions may be frozen until they are 65 if the plant is sold to Thailand's biggest steelmaker, Nick Martin learns.

Scheme liabilities rocket

3 September, 2010

Engaged Investor: Total private sector pension liabilities hit £1.2trn.

TPR dealing with ‘gruesome’ aftermath of credit crunch

3 September, 2010

Professional Pensions: The Pensions Regulator is facing a backlog of post-credit crunch funding disputes as trustees and companies attempt to plug scheme deficits.

US jobless figures set to raise fears of double dip

3 September, 2010

Independent: Investors are bracing themselves for another grim snapshot of the US labour market today, when the government is expected to confirm that unemployment is again on the rise.

Bankers' bonus tax failed, admits Alistair Darling

3 September, 2010

Telegraph: The 50pc tax on bankers' bonuses brought in by the previous government failed to change the City's attitude to pay, Alistair Darling, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, has admitted.

Banks are cutting use of bonuses to recruit

3 September, 2010

Ben Bernanke: new regulations may prompt ' too big to fail' banks to break up

3 September, 2010

Telegraph: America's wave of new financial regulation is likely to prompt the country's biggest financial institutions to break themselves up, according to the chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Europe agrees new agencies to supervise financial firms

3 September, 2010

BBC News: The European Union has reached agreement on reforms to financial supervision, officials have said.

RBS 'horror story' as UK job cuts top 20,000

3 September, 2010

Telegraph: The job cuts at Royal Bank of Scotland are turning into a "horror story", according to union Unite, as the total number of staff made redundant in the UK by the bank since its partial nationalisation topped 20,000.

UK house prices fall, construction growth cools

3 September, 2010

Reuters: British house prices fell much faster than expected last month and construction activity slowed, industry surveys showed on Thursday, reinforcing concerns that economic growth will fall off sharply.

BBC staff vote for strike over pensions

2 September, 2010

Guardian: Members of three unions at the BBC have voted by more than 90% for strike action over changes to their pensions.

Government pension proposals need fine-tuning

2 September, 2010

FT Adviser: Government plans to restrict pensions tax relief for high earners are sound in principle but need some urgent fine-tuning, claimed the National Association of Pensions Funds (NAPF).

Barings sounds warning over 'head in sand' attitude to pensions

2 September, 2010

Telegraph: Nearly half of the adult working population have never reviewed their pension plans despite the volatility of the markets in recent years.

Blair reveals Gordon Brown's pension reform threats

2 September, 2010

Money Marketing: Gordon Brown attempted to derail Lord Turner’s pension reforms by threatening to bring down Tony Blair over the loans for peerages scandal, according to Blair’s memoir.

Standard Life to scrap 600 jobs in £100m cost-cutting plan

2 September, 2010

Telegraph: Standard Life, the insurance and asset management group, is to shed 600 jobs over the next 15 months as its attemptes to cut £100m of costs by the end of next year.

Non-cash deficit funding surges

2 September, 2010

Engaged Investor: Assets set to overtake cash as main financing source for pension scheme shortfalls.

Rise in interest rates would be a 'disaster' for UK economy, warns Peter Hargreaves

2 September, 2010

Telegraph: A rise in interest rates could cause many UK homeowners to "throw away the keys" to their houses, according to Peter Hargreaves, the co-founder of financial adviser Hargreaves Lansdown.

Industrial upturn bolsters world markets

2 September, 2010

This Is Money: Shares prices on both sides of the Atlantic surged after new data bolstered hopes of global economic recovery.

DB innovation sees employer contribution cut

2 September, 2010

Professional Pensions: Multinational companies are looking at innovative ways to redesign defined benefit schemes but will cut contributions by 10% in the process, Mercer research finds.

Veteran fund chief quits at Gartmore

2 September, 2010

FT.com: The intrigue surrounding fund manager Gartmore has escalated after one of its longest serving fund managers quit the company.

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