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• A world fit for stakeholders 
  The stakeholder pension has been introduced to make the pensions universe easier for people to understand, but is the world ready to receive them? Asks Alan Pickering NAPF Chairman.

• East is East
  The NAPF annual investment conference got off to a windy start, but the heated discussions soon warmed up the delegates. Simoney Girard, assistant editor, reports from the seafront.

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  The Budget, the MFR and Myners: a heady combination of topics and issues. But will this cocktail produce the necessary simplicity and clarity for pensions? Stephanie Hawthorne, Editor, assesses the importance of pension fund investment.

• Hats off!
  What do cricket balls, Sussex and a Scottish poet have in common? John Hayes CBE and his pension provision, of course. The former chairman of OPRA reveals all.

• No train, no gain
  Forget Charles Atlas and his five day fitness course: what the pensions industry needs is a mind-building course for trustees. Will they pass the endurance test or are they doomed to fall at the first hurdle? James Thomas, staff writer, advises them to get fit quick for the task ahead.

• All the fun of the fair!
  They’re here at last, but will they stay? The long-awaited, low-charge plan has arrived in town, but will the thrill of the pensions trapeze obscure what stakeholder is really all about? Allison Plager, financial journalist, discovers that the pensions world is in for a rollercoaster ride.

• Executive decisions
  The executives: fat cat pay or fair dues? Bhargaw Buddhev explores the options open to trustees when deciding on staff benefits and ways to recruit and retain high-flying staff.

• Court of appeal
  What happens when you take several balanced and specialist managers, a few consultants and mix them with a handful of pensions managers? A slanging match about investment options, it seems. Girard J sat in on the proceedings.

• Brass tacks
  The roaring twenties, prohibition, rum-running… and the biggest financial disaster to impact on a global scale. Adrian Jarvis looks at the economic scenario then and draws some alarming conclusions for pensions investment now.

• Lost property
  Property investment had fallen by the wayside, but it is now building up a large following among pension schemes. James Thomas, staff writer, examines the fall and rise of this asset class.

• Political stage
  When April showers: party political U-turns and garbled speeches sounding more like "McNuboidial-storbitoid" than "Myners and stakeholder" left Sue Ward to sort out the political storms.
• Points of law
  High and dry: courting controversy as ever, Robin Ellison expands on the growing number of high court judges left stranded over pensions litigation.
• Trustee topics
  Till divorce do us part: lies and damned lies: but how to solve the complexities of pension sharing? Tim Giles knows the score.
• Beginners’ page
  On active service?: continuing the mini-series on investment, Bob Bridges looks at the increasing role of active management for pension funds.
• Tax and benefit notes
  No hiding place: the Greenbury Report is still biting into pension scheme administration, as Terry Ritchie explains.