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Investors have allocated more than €50bn (£40.6bn) of new assets to long-term funds in the first quarter of 2012, says Morningstar.

Aberdeen Asset Management increased its assets under management by 9% during the last two quarters and boosted its pre-tax profits by 14%, its latest results showed.

How smaller employers can cope with auto-enrolment

A group of high-level chief investment officers has criticised modern portfolio theory for failing institutional investors.

A key theme to pensions is responsibility.

Can schemes find respite in the cash stockpiles of their sponsors?

Increasing direct hedge fund investment by UK schemes is driving fund of fund managers to become more like consultants, industry figures say.

The Supreme Court has ruled employers may have powers to forcibly retire staff at 65 - putting in doubt the abolition of the default retirement age.

Jonathan Stapleton on the shareholder rebellion

The government launched a public consultation on simplifying pension regulation as part of its wider Red Tape Challenge in April.