Legal & General Investments has launched an environmental fund aimed at institutional investors to tap into companies providing low carbon technologies.

One in five local government schemes operate with negative cash flows and future contribution reductions could push that figure to half, PP can reveal.

Pension schemes should outsource investment implementation to third-party firms to stop trustees focusing too heavily on manager "beauty parades", a trustee says.

UK pension fund demand for inflation caps in the options market is so low experts say a "catalyst" is needed to level out the market.

You don't have to be mad to work here...

Public sector unions are gearing up for a national strike on 30 June to protest against pension changes proposed by Lord Hutton.

Government should be ready to put in place a "plan B" for auto-enrolment proposals if the project fails to get more people saving, a leading consultant says.

Rising inflation would prove beneficial to FTSE100 pension schemes if it exceeded current level by just 1.4 percentage points, research reveals.

The balance of schemes monitored by the Pension Protection Fund has fallen from a surplus of £2.3bn to a deficit of £13.5bn since the end of April, figures show.

UK - The Pension Protection Fund has appointed a further four actuarial firms in a major extension of its ‘assess and pay' project to speed up scheme entry into the lifeboat fund.