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• Wanted – action! -  Peter Thompson looks through the Government’s rhetoric on pensions to the essential message: that it doesn’t seem particularly concerned about the problems faced by occupational providers.

• Turning the tide - Ice cream, seawater and pensions. Always an enchanting combination, as Howard McWilliam discovered when he headed south to the NAPF annual conference in Brighton. Though he was hoping for more sunburn.

• Throwing the book - Howard McWilliam talks to pensions lawyer Graham Chrystie about his recent cases and then initiates a contest to see who can hurl large volumes from his library the furthest.

• Law'ts to talk about - James Thomas asks how pensions lawyers' lives compare with that of Ally McBeal. The complexity in a real lawyer's day induces less sighing and tends to come from more external, legislative sources. And real lawyers hallucinate less.

• Condition critical - Editor Stephanie Hawthorne, stethoscope at the ready, diagnoses the pensions industry with an acute case of DC - Deteriorating Condition. Is it too late to operate?

COMMUNICATIONS SURVEY

• Tell me more! - How do you get employees to drop to their knees, raise their arms in the air and implore you to enlighten them on the company pension? Allison Plager narrates the communications tale thus far.
  

PENSION ADMINISTRATION

• An ever-changing vista - From the lofty vantage point of the latest survey, Mike Addenbrooke gasps at the shadows, glimmers and landmarks in the pensions industry spread out before him.

THIRD PARTY ADMINISTRATION

• Cleaning up the garden - Ian McQuade delves into the soft soil of the outsourcing industry to see if he can rip up weeds without killing flowers.

INVESTMENT

• Communal bonding - Angelina Chueh sits holding hands in loved-up hippie circles talking about bond investment.