Investment

US - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has updated guidance over increasing transparency in the financial reporting of companies with multiemployer pensions.

Nervous advisers are recommending clients stick with their existing pension arrangements, even where there is good reason to transfer, because of the FSA's "heavy-handed" crackdown on pension switching.

The economic downturn in 2009 saw pension funds swing towards corporate bonds. But now the dust has settled, Laura Blows questions their current role

The Pensions Regulator is facing a backlog of post-credit crunch funding disputes as trustees and companies attempt to plug scheme deficits.

The future of EMI is in "significant doubt" after the employer and scheme trustees failed to reach agreement over funding arrangements for its pension deficit.

The London Pensions Fund Authority is considering teaming up with other schemes to help improve its shareholder engagement in emerging markets.

Manufacturing firm Molins has awarded Aegon Asset Management a £300m mandate to overhaul its scheme investments.

Trustees should consider investment opportunities in the shipping industry brought on by the slow down in global trade following the credit crisis, Mercer says.

Employers are looking to strengthen and improve their defined contribution schemes as the demise of defined benefit accelerates, providers say.

Pension tax relief restrictions will unfairly penalise people who are promoted, made redundant or take early ill-health retirement, the National Association of Pension Funds warns.