Defined Benefit

The top stories this week were the pensions regulator warning about new master trusts and revealing a big board shake-up, while the LGPS pooling picture became clearer.

Pension schemes paying higher actuarial fees are not getting better value for money from their providers, according to KGC's sixth actuarial fee and services survey.

Raj Mody thinks we need to take a new approach to assessing scheme health.

DB schemes will not vanish from FTSE 250 companies in the next 12 months according to PP research.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) will pay ten years' worth of pension contributions into its defined benefit (DB) plan by March following IAS-driven changes to its accounting policies.

Defined benefit (DB) pension schemes should move away from index-linked gilts and increase exposure to risk assets in order to plug deficits, according to research by Fathom Consulting.

Behavioural economics could help trustees avoid making mistakes that could ultimately put members at risk. Michael Klimes investigates

A group of local authorities have joined forces under a major project to tell the government how the local government pension scheme (LGPS) should be pooled.

Pension fund boards and executive committees across Europe have shown the strongest female representation in the capital markets sector, according to a report by New Financial.

Defined benefit (DB) schemes cannot "survive bouts of market volatility" through liability hedging and a long-term investment horizon alone says Russell Investments.