Investment

Proposed changes to international accounting standard IAS19 could wipe £8.7bn off reported company profits, Mercer warns.

Sales of enhanced annuities in the UK increased by 24% last year, latest Towers Watson research reveals.

I'm writing this month's piece on the eve of the Global Pensions Awards 2010. Tomorrow night's events are the culmination of months of work, not only from the judges and pension funds who took the time to nominate their providers, but from the asset managers...

GLOBAL - Only 22.2% of the respondents of the Global Pensions 100 Panel said they are using fundamental indexing in their portfolios.

NORWAY - The Government Pension Fund Global posted a 25.6% profit for 2009 on the back of equities and fixed income gains.

Fidelity has launched an employer financed retirement benefit scheme (EFRBS).

The industry is giving The Pensions Regulator too much power by asking its permission prior to making decisions, HamishWilson says.

Trade unions could increase their members' pensions by more than half by backing collective defined contribution arrangements, a leading fund manager says.

The Enterprise Chamber of the Amsterdam Court of Appeals has rejected a request by Hermes and the Universities Superannuation Scheme to investigate Canon's tender offer worth €730m (US$998.4m) to buy Océ.

The ruling in the long-running Imperial Décor case has left the government in breach of European law obligations, Eversheds says.