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• Taxing the untaxable 
  Without the tax free cash, most prospective pensions saving would pour into ISAs instead. Peter Thompson stresses the importance of keeping things long term.

Equitable Life: pensioners suffer
Pensions World awards triumph
NAPF conference

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• Birthday Badinage 
  Pensions World’s 30th birthday was celebrated with debate, banter and freestyle rapping from industry luminaries. Howard McWilliam was there to mix the results. 

• Flying high 
  Howard McWilliam gazes up to the sky to see how the high earners of the country are providing for their retirement, and how all those acronyms convert into mountains of cash.

• Softly does it 
  Are schemes taking a ‘softly, softly’ approach to computing developments? James Thomas tiptoes gently around the software industry to spy what’s going on.

• Filling in the gaps 
  In the barren wastes of depressed investments and dwindling state support, the pensions topsoil is cracked and brittle. Leslie Gray examines the fissures and initiates an actuarial rain dance.

• Boots sale bonanza? 
  On the anniversary of Boots’ radical equities-to-bonds announcement, John Ralfe opens up the back of the lorry and dispenses well-shod answers to questions and rumours.

• Pensions and the big picture 
  Chris Lewin, Unilever pensions manager, paints a remarkably forbearing view of pensions against a backdrop of the Merrill Lynch court case. James Thomas prepares the canvas.

• Political stage 
  ’Twas the night before… change?: All through the House, creatures were stirring in expectation (or derision) of a Green Paper to invigorate the industry. Sue Ward reports. 

• Points of law 
  The European liberation front: Robin Ellison wonders whether the European OECD movement, like other liberation armies, could set about mutilating and killing off pensions in the name of freedom.

• Trustee topics 
  Allison Plager has ringside seats for the big fight at the workplace arena. While GPPs, stakeholders and DC pensions battle it out, she assesses the possibility of one of them taking a dive. 

• Beginners’ page 
  Splitting image: When the knot comes untied and a couple divorces, what is the pensions snapshot? Denise Blanks explains. 

• Tax and benefit notes 
  The art of illustration: Will statutory money purchase illustrations render pension forecasts in colourful clarity or shade them with smudged pencil? Declan McKeown draws up some possibilities.