Investment

The Financial Services Authority has urged advisers to think "very carefully" before using accelerated pension drawdown schemes.

PensionDCisions has teamed up with Professional Pensions to launch its 2010 Sponsor Default Survey.

The government and pensions minister Angela Eagle are adamant personal accounts will go ahead in their current form.

Nearly two-thirds of pension managers believe personal accounts will not go ahead in their current form.

Trustees need better access to company information in a bid to monitor covenants more effectively, a Hewitt poll reveals.

John Quarrell and his trustee firm Quarters Trustees have been struck off in a damning ruling from The Pensions Regulator's determinations panel.

John Dickson of Hymans Robertson explains how schemes can take advantage of medium-term anomalies in order to boost returns

The latest Viewpoint sees Mercer unveil the findings of its research into the global DC pensions market

UK - The National Association of Pension Funds has called on the government to skew gilt issuance towards long-dated and index-linked gilts.

GERMANY - Deutsche Bank has set up a pension asset-pooling vehicle in Luxembourg aimed at its employees' pension assets and at other companies' funds.