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• Endangered!

  Let us hope that decent occupational pensions are not sliding towards the scrap heap of history, says Stephanie Hawthorne, editor.

NAPF AUTUMN CONFERENCE

• The greenhouse effect Stephanie Hawthorne went along to the QE II Conference Centre to hear the hot topics and burning issues in pensions.

PROFILE

• The power of diplomacy While, as far as we are aware, he cannot resist arrest, David Laverick is lending the Ombudsman position an air of pacifying tactfulness, as Howard McWilliam discovers.

E-LIABILITY

• Signing your life e-way Make sure you don’t come a cropper in a big Tron-like internet calamity, says Catherine Garvey.

SRI

• Social workers With his request for a chocolate duck to hold his teapot turned down by the Council, an embittered James Thomas investigates ways to make a better world.

• News from the BBC Roving pensions manager Rhoslyn Roberts reports on a career and pension ranging far and wide.

• A dying art? - Lesley Carline mourns the trend towards outsourcing when computer-led in house administration can showcase such elegant brushstrokes.

• Working for the big boys

  How are things looking in the pensions recruitment pool? Howard McWilliam dons some ridiculous armbands and jumps in.

• Double jeopardy - David King demonstrates how to make pension fund investment much less risky than writing a magazine article inside a cage of lions.