Investment

GLOBAL - Towers Watson has started recommending its clients invest up to half of their passive assets in fundamental indexes.

Towers Watson has started recommending its clients invest up to half of their passive assets in fundamental indices.

Financial Services Authority chief executive Hector Sants will step down in the summer after three years in the role.

Trustees of the EMI Group Pension Fund and Maltby Capital - the owner of EMI Music and EMI Music Publishing - have called in The Pensions Regulator to help resolve a dispute over funding and strategy.

Pension funds have been returning to the UK commercial property market in the wake of improving returns after the asset class lost almost half of its value, industry figures say.

Schemes are increasingly shifting towards active strategies as market rallies pushed down fees in 2009 across most asset classes, latest bfinance research reveals.

Royal London Asset Management has launched a global index-linked bond fund aimed at hedging against potential inflation, but at higher yields than currently available in the UK.

US - US regulators seem to have softened their stance on placement agents who are hired by investment managers to win contracts from public pension funds.

US - State Street Corp. has reached a settlement with the SEC and Massachusetts authorities that results in the firm ultimately paying US$663m to investors who lost money in active fixed income strategies run by State Street Global Advisors.

After a tumultuous decade in investment, Raquel Pichardo-Allison and Giovanni Legorano speak to industry experts about what the next 10 years hold for investment practices