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  The tax rules for retirement are considerably more antiquated and brittle than the ageing workforce whose retirement they complicate. It is time for renovation, says Stephanie Hawthorne.

New NAPF Chairman
Green Paper Unveiled
Plight of Maxwell pensioners
PW 30th party

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• Press your buttons… Now! 
  The SPC’s second strategic conference pushed all the right buttons for thought-provoking debate, as James Thomas found out. It just lacked the button for "undisputed solution". 

• Window shopping 
  The investment marketplace is quite the bustling arcade. But what should pension schemes look for when picking a manager to spend their money on? James Thomas browses.

• A good investment 
  Can we save the planet and make money? The growing popularity of SRI funds says "yes". Howard McWilliam investigates whether funds should put their consciences where their wallets are.

• Fine tuning 
  Dick Strattan explains how a structured approach is crucial to making DC a well-oiled piece of precision engineering rather than a rusty contraption riddled with holes.

• Crisis, what crisis? 
  Clive Fortes is confident that we will ride out the current storm in occupational pensions but hopes we will learn some vital lessons from it.

• Stepping on the scales 
  When a pension scheme’s admin department weighs in, what can be done if it doesn’t like what it sees? Personal trainer Allan Course gives some useful advice for spotting the heavy, sagging areas.

• Rhyme and reason 
  Arshad Khan says trustees should consider taking notes when they set off a sequence of events, to prevent them snowballing into a big Ombudsman complaint.

• Political stage 
  Consenting adults: If we really are at a turning point for pensions, as the Green Paper’s hype suggests, then all party consensus may be crucial. Sue Ward assesses the bickering in parliament. 

• 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.

• 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.