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  • BusinessAOL

    Mega pension fund could hike retirement income by '33%'

    How would you like a 30%+ boost to your pension? Were the Coalition to agree to collective pensions - which have given Danish and Dutch citizens claimed superior returns compared to British pensions - it could be possible. Research undertaken

  • NewsAOL

    'Unnecessary' pension plans blasted

    Proposed European Commission pension changes would be a "disaster" for British business, forcing billions of pounds of extra costs and leading to thousands of job losses, a new report has claimed. The Confederation of British Industry

  • PoliticsAOL

    CBI calls for services outsourcing

    Outsourcing more public services could save the Government around £22 billion without hitting quality, according to business leaders. The CBI said "inertia" in Whitehall was stopping more state-funded programmes being run by the

  • BusinessAOL

    Scottish independence 'would cost firms'

    Scottish independence would prove costly to companies on both sides of the border, according to a business lobbying group. The CBI is "not convinced of the business and economic case" for

  • BusinessAOL

    Firms 'cautious' on recruitment

    Recruitment plans by private firms remain "cautious" and pay restraint is now the norm, according to a new report. Research among more than 300 firms by the CBI and recruitment firm Harvey Nash found one in five said they were

  • PoliticsAOL

    CBI forecasts 'pick up' in recovery

    A leading business organisation has moved to lift some of the gloom hanging over the UK economy by forecasting a "pick up" in the recovery over the rest of the year. The CBI cut its growth forecast for 2012 to 0.6%, from 0.9%

  • NewsAOL

    Economy 'facing last chance saloon'

    The leader of the UK's biggest business group has warned that the economy was in the "last chance saloon" unless the decline in jobs and growth is reversed. John Cridland, director general of the CBI, said Government action was