Industry requests for acquiring companies to consider target pension schemes in takeover bids came "too late in the day" to be considered as part of an amended Takeover Code, PP can reveal.

A drafting "anomaly" in the Pensions Bill concerning the change from RPI to CPI indexation must be addressed before it gets royal assent, lawyers warn.

Liability-driven investment is "fundamentally misconceived" because it hedges low interest rates which in fact increase corporate profitability, a radical report finds.

The Pensions Trust has launched a defined contribution website for the administration of its Flexible Retirement Plan.

UK - Pension funds are facing a dilemma in that de-risking is expensive and not getting cheaper. Instead, they should take on more risk in the current climate, delegates at this year's Professional Pensions Show heard.

The tone of industry regulators is "aggressive and confrontational" rather than being collegiate with the industry, a lawyer says.

Defined contribution investors need to look at their portfolios from a risk perspective akin to defined benefit schemes, delegates heard.

Standard Life has launched a master trust arrangement as an extension of its trust-based bundled defined contribution offering with Pitmans Trustees as trustee.

TPR chief executive Bill Galvin tells PP what the industry needs to do ahead of the 2012 pension reforms.

Pension funds are facing a dilemma in that de-risking is expensive and not getting cheaper so they should take on more risk in the current climate, delegates heard.