Investment

IRELAND - The Pensions Board has agreed to extend the timeframe for defined benefit schemes to submit their funding proposals.

Insurers will be forced to increase buyout prices in the medium term unless CPI-linked instruments are issued in the coming months, Punter Southall says.

HM Treasury will announce new pension taxation rules including the cap on the annual allowance tomorrow.

Four Capital Partners has hired former Morgan Stanley Investment Management manager Colin McQueen to set up a global equities offering at the firm.

The European Parliament and Council Presidency have been unable to agree on the final text of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM) directive.

F&C Investments has launched a fund which aims to provide investors with a combination of capital growth and income from European equities.

F&C Investments has hired Alice Evans as a senior fund manager in its global thematic equities team.

The European Court of Justice may equalise annuity rates for men and women, but doing so could make women's pension income even worse, experts warn.

Two years on from official regulatory guidance on managing conflicts of interest the majority of small pension schemes are still falling short, a law firm warns.

Allowing savers early access to pension cash would inject £65bn into the UK economy in the short term, the Society of Pension Consultants says.