Flexible payments from pension rose to £5.7bn in 2016 as people increasingly sought to take advantage of the freedoms, according to HM Revenue and Customs' (HMRC) figures.

The local government pension pools for the South West and Midlands are actively hiring senior managers to lead and develop the innovative structures.

The half of fiduciary managers that have not yet submitted initial data for the IC Select industry performance standard now face a set deadline of 28 February.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose to 1.6% in December on the back of falls in sterling following the Brexit vote, its highest level in two years.

EU rules downgrading local authority funds to retail investors is throwing up complications for pooling and infrastructure investment. The FCA must ensure pools are part of the solution, writes Stephanie Baxter

The CovPress pension scheme has come out of the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) after the automotive supplier was acquired by Liberty House in the first rescue of its kind.

This year is set to be a bumpy ride with yet more geopolitical events and tensions between central bank policies. Stephanie Baxter takes a look at investment predictions for 2017.

Some of the UK's biggest pension schemes have co-founded an initiative to better understand how the transition to a low carbon economy affects their investments.

University of St Andrews' £90m defined benefit (DB) scheme has delegated its day-to-day investment management to Aon Hewitt to reduce volatility and increase diversification.

Pension funds have been given extra time to prepare for potentially onerous rules requiring their over-the-counter (OTC) derivative transactions to be centrally cleared.