IBM has removed its long-standing pension scheme trustee chairman after 18 years on the board and scrapped the chairman's role in a further downsizing of its trustee board.

Low rates of return on risk- free assets caused by an ongoing supply squeeze will keep equity risk premiums elevated for the next few years, a Barclays Capital study says.

The European Commission will not "copy and paste" Solvency II laws into a fresh occupational pension scheme directive, the architect of the IORP review says.

Public sector pension schemes and insurers are in line for a £500,000 windfall after authorities recovered thousands of pounds in assets from canoe fraudster John Darwin and his wife.

Pension schemes are missing the "biggest opportunity in recent history" to improve their funding levels by continuing to buy sovereign bonds, Gatemore Capital Management warns.

Pendragon, owner of car dealership franchise Evans Halshaw, has slashed its scheme liabilty nearly 90% after entering into an asset backed deal with its trustees.

Spectris has slashed the deficit of its UK defined benefit scheme by almost two-thirds through a mixture of deficit contributions and an enhanced transfer value exercise.

Investors will surge into income-generating assets to guard against low cash yields and increasing economic uncertainty, a survey of fund managers has predicted.

Rating agency Moody's has put government-backed UK rail infrastructure on negative watch - raising questions for pension schemes under pressure to invest in the country's transport network.

Asset managers, lobby groups, consultants and law firms have reacted warily to the publication of EIOPA advice on Solvency II standards for pension schemes. Here's what they had to say