Children are more susceptible to autism if either of their parents is older than 35 at the time of conception, researchers say.

The findings have come as a surprise as it was previously thought that...

A tiny fighter from UK is recovering in hospital after becoming the youngest person to have open-heart surgery.

Surgeons pieced together Jasmine Carr's heart when she was 17 and a half hours old...

saving enough for retirement . A new ING study, which was commissioned by the ING Retirement Research Institute and polled households with incomes over $40,000, found that 31 percent of African...

In Pictures: 10 New Retirement Hot Spots Retirees aren't moving to new places as often as they have in the past. Just 3 percent of people age 65 and older relocated between 2010 and 2011,...

Boomer Marketing Firms Collaborate to Offer Product Innovation as a Service - Collaboration Promises to Inject Entrepreneurial Thinking into Established...

Toronto, ON (PRWEB) February 01, 2012 As a child in war-ravaged Europe, Vera Leinvebers lost nearly everything. Now, she's opening up about her loss in an alternative autobiography that reveals...

Follow @rosa Many individuals have been holding their breath and waiting for the day when Siri becomes officially available on older iPhones. But according to one analyst, that moment may never come...

While its administrative budget climbs, its investment fees skyrocket and its commissioners plot petty political intrigues, South Carolina’s pension fund is shedding value at an alarming rate. ...

PICTURES: Dangerous sex: 27 vintage STD posters And the authors of a new editorial want to know why.According to the editorial, an estimated 80 percent of 50- to 90-year-olds are sexually active....

Janet Cowell reported Friday. Fourth quarter 2011 returns were 3.82 percent. "Though markets ended the year on a positive note in the fourth quarter, 2011 was highly volatile overall,"...

The Olympian reports that a bill that would require new state employees to participate in a 401(k)-type plan with less benefits appears to be heading toward failure, while a plan to skip a $130...

A silver alert has been issued for a missing Fayetteville woman who is believed to be suffering from dementia or some other type of cognitive impairment. Edith Raynor Dunn, 57, was last seen Sunday...

NEW YORK -; The pressure was on. The tension was thick. And then, there were yawns in between. The Super Bowl may have been a nail biter, but the ads were a snooze. Clint Eastwood waxed for two...

Kyrgyzstan's opposition politicians are outraged. Late last year hundreds of tons of coal with higher than normal levels of radioactivity found their way from a mine in Kazakhstan to the...

Police authorities may have to find tens of millions of pounds extra to fund their pension liabilities after a retired inspector won a landmark legal challenge preserving his income.The ruling by a...

England ad Charlton star Jordan Cousins (cafc.co.uk) England and Charlton Athletic footballer Jordan Cousins has been arrested on suspicion of raping a 12-year-old...

The average growth in wages in the Government and Education sectors has caused the board of Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP to adjust pensions in 2010. The board has currently set indexation at 0.45...

Realistically, it is unlikely that Europe will see the evolution of a pan-European pensions market within the next ten years, say leading pension experts in a survey by Allianz Global Investors AG...

Long-term savings provisions in Europe are flawed and are no longer able to meet the needs of ageing populations, finds the Janus Capital European Consumer Finance Survey. The study, which is...

Despite the first half of 2009 showing marked improvements on returns for pension schemes globally compared to the huge losses in 2008, structural challenges remain, reports the Organisation for...

Romanian pension funds posted positive returns for the first eight months of 2009, with average results of 11.31 per cent in mandatory pension funds, and 10.73 per cent for voluntary pension funds....

Positive revaluation of investments and favourable price movements of financial assets have added €25bn in value to Dutch pension funds’ investment portfolios in the second quarter of...

The Committee of European Securities Regulators’ (CESR) proposal to compress the riskiness of an investment fund into a single number will cause investors to make inappropriate investment...

paper, in which its experts draw upon practical experience consulting in retirement, healthcare and workforce managements. The conclusions drawn from the report are that defined benefit (DB)...

Merges between the Pensions Board and the Financial Regulator, and the Pensions Ombudsman and the Financial Services Ombudsman, have been recommended in the Irish government’s...

The Local Government Pension Institution (LGPI) has signed an agreement with Ortec Finance to license its Asset Liability solution for pension plans. The pension institution for local...

The European Commission has selected Hewitt Associates to conduct a feasibility study and advise on the establishment of a pan-European pension fund for researchers. The project will see Hewitt...

A new tax-efficient Pension Trust that allows UK Limited Companies to provide retirement packages for their employees who have responsibilities outside the UK has been launched by s615(6) Limited. ...

A report from UKSIF, the association which promotes Sustainable Investment and Finance, indicates that Responsible Investment is growing in popularity among UK corporate pension funds, a change led...

Bankpension, a pension fund for employees in the Danish financial sector, has reported ';extremely unsatisfactory'; 2008 results, with yields after tax standing at -19.7 per cent. In...

Firm measures are necessary to bring scheme funding levels of Dutch pension funds up to the minimum required funding ratio of 105 per cent within five years, warns De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) in...

Ireland’s defined benefit (DB) pension scheme members will gain further support with news that a new Pensions Insolvency Payment Scheme (PIPS) is to be introduced in the Social and Welfare...

Global pension assets have dropped by over 20 per cent, or $5.4trn, as a result of the financial crisis, says the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The organisation...

Irish private pension provision will be destroyed if the Irish Government goes ahead with a reduction in tax relief, says the Irish Association of Pension Funds (IAPF). Next month’s...

EUR 26bn worth of securities were sold by Dutch pension funds in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to figures published by De Nederlandsche Bank. The funds carried out equities sales...

The European Union (EU) has admitted that pensions are not ‘immune’ from the financial crisis, but have shown themselves to be ‘robust’ in comparison to other financial...

Norway's Government Pension Fund lost NOK 29.6bn (€2.95bn) in 2008, a massive drop attributed to the equities, according to figures from Folketrygdfondet. The asset manager is a...

The credit crunch is not letting up on Irish pension funds, with February recording further losses of 5.7 per cent. In January, the average fund declined by 1.9 per cent, brining the return for...

In a bid to level out the playing field between Iceland’s pensions for public officials and the general public, the Minister of Finance has moved to abolish the Act that provides these...

The Second Swedish National Pension Fund/AP2 has recorded a sharp fall in its market worth for 2008, amounting to a return of -24 per cent on net assets. The return value, SEK -55.1bn, meant the...

UK pension funds are set to enjoy a €100million rebate from the Dutch tax authorities following a tax ruling, says the UK branch of KPMG. The professional services provider’s test...

Life expectancy assumptions for funding valuations in UK pension schemes have been increased by eleven months, according to Mercer’s valuation survey. In a reaction to regulatory pressure,...

show that assets fell from around US$25trn to US$20trn, with the global pensions balance sheet also shrinking by around 29 per cent in 2008. The financial consultant says this reflects the...

The Irish Pensions Ombudsman saw a forty-three per cent rise in new cases compared to 2007, with the number of cases closed in 2008 up by ten per cent on last year. Around 450 cases are...

Norway’s Ministry of Finance is referring to its Ethical Guidelines for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund – Global following the situation in Gaza. According to the current...

Polish open pension funds OFE have recorded a negative rate of return of 14 per cent for 2008. The market watchdog also said that, between January and December 2008, OFE lost zl.21.5bn. The...

Survey. It seems that pension risk is no longer simply an inconvenience, and the survey questioned 171 pension plans in 12 countries. It found that pension risk is viewed primarily as a...

. The financial consultant questioned 1,028 human resource and finance professionals representing organisations from operations in more than 100 countries on their plans for 2009. The results...

Irish Pension Managed Funds recorded a negative return of four per cent for the month of November 2008, a continuation of its downward trend, although there are signs of stability, says Hewitt...