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• Differential Equations
  With a shorter working life and a longer retirement, is there a solution to the problem of securing a decent income? Stephanie Hawthorne, Editor, gets out her calculator.

• Ignorance was bliss
  There was a time when innocence was Julian Farrand’s keyword regarding pensions. Now the Ombusdman turned novelist writes of his financial awakening.

• Tomorrow’s world
  Divorce, financial woes and the death of the truffle mouse: this is the present. Our man of the moment, James Thomas, took a trip to the future at the PMI Spring Conference. 

• Ballot day blues
  The shareholder is dead! Long live the shareholder! Greater attention to corporate governance issues is giving rise to a more vocal membership. John Plender reports.

• Putting it to parliament
  Had enough of election posters? Fed up with flyers and free pens through the letter box? Tired of jingoistic rhetoric and white vans with loudspeakers? If so, don’t despair! There may be hope for the finance industry yet: Francis Fernandes puts forth a pensions manifesto to the next government.

• Spoilt for choice
  As donuts to Homer Simpson, so are additional voluntary contributions to those looking for a savings alternative: so much choice, but how to decide? Stewart Ritchie lends a hand.

• How the British lost the plot
  The The government has gone bananas and pensions provision is in a crazy tangle. John Shuttleworth points to Europe and asks whether we are, in fact, the odd ones out? 

• Who you gonna call?
  When the going gets tough, the not so tough get on the phone. Malcolm McLean says stakeholder is nothing to fear where OPAS is concerned.

• All to play for
  The year 2000: as with British tennis, investment managers were so near good returns, but losing points at the net. A bad year all round, but who were the players who reached the finals? Allison Plager commentates.

• The Professionals
  They’ll make your managers toe the line and ease your way through a wind up. But they won’t groom your shitsu and might even leave you out of pocket. Are independent trustees more than you bargained for? Simoney Girard reports.

• Political stage
  The show must go on!: No comedy capers, but a lot of blood, toil, sweat and tears on the Westminster stage, as Sue Ward reveals.
• Points of law
  Throwing caution to the wind: Prudence, that Victorian virtue, is still en vogue among trustees, says Robin Ellison.
• Tax and benefit notes
  The end… or just the beginning?: John Wilson ponders the progress of Preston on part timers.
• NAPF EXHIBITION PREVIEW
  They’re out in force and ready to sell their wares. James Thomas takes a sneak peek at what the NAPF’s Annual Conference exhibitors are offering.
• Tax and benefit notes
  No hiding place: the Greenbury Report is still biting into pension scheme administration, as Terry Ritchie explains.