Defined Benefit

DB schemes take 'up to three months' to respond

Jonathan Stapleton speaks to the RMPP about how it improved its governance processes, implemented a risk management and modelling system and overhauled communications with members.

Michael O'Higgins has been appointed chairman of the £10bn asset and liability management (ALM) partnership between Lancashire County Pension Fund (LCPF) and London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA).

The chancellor's shock announcement that local government pensions will be pooled into regional funds to boost UK infrastructure means yet more upheaval for the scheme, finds Stephanie Baxter

London CIV's chief executive tells PP it is almost open for business

Why trustees really can't afford to ignore covenant

The funding deficit of the British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) has dropped from £550m to £90m as a result of cost cutting measures agreed following tough negotiations.

Pan Governance has been chosen to act as independent trustee of Deloitte's defined benefit (DB) master trust which was launched earlier this year.

The funding level of Tesco's defined benefit (DB) pension scheme has fallen yet again as it revealed its first-half profits have more than halved.

More than one in three schemes that use a fiduciary manager has no formal process to review their relationship according to an annual survey from Buck Consultants at Xerox.