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Dividend pay outs from UK companies will increase more than 10% this year, led by top dividend payments from telecom giant Vodafone, Capita predicts.

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Schemes have urged FTSE Group to increase entry requirements for admittance to its listed stock exchanges to boost minority shareholder safeguards.

Consultants have raised questions about pension liability calculations, after bond market jitters drove liabilities to historic highs.

Asset-backed pension scheme contributions could exceed £10bn in the next five years, latest research finds.

The country's biggest firms have increased their pensioner longevity assumptions for the fifth year running in a move which has added about 1% to scheme liabilities, Mercer says.

Pensions deficits have become more affordable to blue chip companies despite almost doubling in size this year to £70bn, research finds.

Eurozone indices sold off sharply in early trading as fears over a break-up of the region swept across markets once again.