Investment

J.P.Morgan Asset Management has launched an alternatives portfolio in a bid to help small to medium sized schemes access asset classes including hedge funds, infrastructure and private equity.

Government plans to switch inflation-linked uplifts for final salary pension schemes from the retail prices index (RPI) to the consumer prices index (CPI) have had an instant and negative effect on the UK index-linked gilt market, Aegon Asset Management...

The Pensions Regulator is set to strengthen its guidance on transfer incentives following "concerning" behaviour from some trustees.

The aggregate deficit of the 6653 schemes in the Pension Protection Fund's PPF 7800 index amounted to £21.8bn at the end June down from a surplus of £11.7bn at the end of May.

Aegon has named former ABN Amro Asset Management chief and ex-Artemis director Sarah Russell as the new chief executive of its asset management business.

UK - Pensions minister Steve Webb has made a written statement to parliament clarifying the government's proposals to index private sector pension increases to CPI rather than RPI.

Three quarters of institutional investment managers believe global growth will remain stagnant over the next six months, according to research by Northern Trust Global Advisors.

GLOBAL - Three quarters of institutional investment managers believe global growth will remain stagnant over the next six months, according to research by Northern Trust Global Advisors (NTGA).

Scheme allocations to alternative assets have increased almost three-fold over the past 10 years, Towers Watson research reveals.

BRAZIL - Brazilian state pension funds Funcef, Petrus and Previ will have a stake in the Belo Monte hydropower dam that will be built in the Amazon, an official with the state-run electricity company said.