Only 7% of workplace pension professionals believe employers would set up trust-based schemes to take advantage of short-service refunds, a study shows.

EUROPE - Gearing equity mandates towards outperforming quarterly benchmarks could be undermining attempts to improve long-term investing, Aviva Investors says.

Just 2% of retirees in the UK will have enough money to meet the government's new minimum income requirement and use flexible drawdown arrangements, research shows.

Brockton Capital has added Birmingham's The Mailbox retail complex to its portfolio for £127.1m.

Gearing equity mandates towards outperforming quarterly benchmarks could be undermining attempts to improve long-term investing, Aviva Investors says.

Schemes need to find an "optimal solution" to hedge longevity risk to keep some risk in their portfolios, delegates heard.

Defined benefit schemes should transfer into the information disclosure regime to make members more aware of their options at retirement, consultants say.

Defined benefit schemes will be given free reign to change their accrual rates to offset the costs of scrapping the contracting-out rebate, PP has learned.

Local government exposure to index-linked bonds dropped last year against a backdrop of increasing allocations to the asset class from corporate defined benefit schemes, figures show.

De-risking solutions for smaller schemes should be targeted at individual members and be proportionate to the size of the scheme to limit sponsor costs, delegates heard.