SCHEMES must engage with companies over human capital issues, a guide by the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum urges.

MEMBERS of the Unite union have backed changes to the Local Government Pension Scheme by nine-to-one.

Pension schemes that continue to allocate significant funds to domestic equities are a cause for "despair", Pioneer Investments says.

AUSTRALIA - Superannuation fund, Sunsuper, has reported record contribution levels and another year of double digit returns in 2006 and 2007.

Paternoster survey a step in the right direction

Schemes could create a new asset class for traded life policies, Managing Partners Limited says.

PRIVATE sector pension schemes are withering on the vine while public sector workers continue to receive gold plated pensions, the Liberal Democrats claim.

Pensions ombudsman David Laverick has used his final annual report to highlight concerns over the regulation of independent trustees.

Rising government bond yields increase the risk of turbulence in financial markets, Legal & General Investment Management warns.

More than a third of schemes find it difficult to recruit trustees and changing legislation will make the situation worse, Mercer Human Resource Consulting claims.