UK - Schroders has disclosed plans to launch a product which would enable smaller pension funds to access alternative investments "in a managed way".

The publication of a draft "library" of mortality assumptions is a reminder that scheme surpluses could be illusory, Hewitt Associates claims.

The rapid growth of self-invested personal pensions has created a number of myths which need to be debunked, Hargreaves Lansdown claims.

Scheme administrator RPMI has launched a year-long management development programme in a bid to boost its staff's leadership capabilities.

The Gascoigne Pension Scheme has become the first wind-up fund where every member is now receiving full annual payment from the government's Financial Assistance Scheme.

CURRENT pension liabilities have been vastly underestimated because of massively improved longevity and out-of-date actuarial models, Paternoster claims.

SCHEMES in surplus will use their current buoyancy as an opportunity to de-risk, consultants believe.

Pension funds have been warned to take privacy issues more seriously.

New funds - set up under the EU's Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities directives - have been launched by SEI and Axa Investment Managers.

Guaranteed drawdown products could be the solution for babyboomers worried about the effects of inflation on their retirement income, Hartford Life claims.