Investment

Pinsent Masons head of strategic development - pensions Robin Ellison told delegates to "watch this space" and in the next 12 to 18 months there will be more companies offering services to manage class actions. He said courts in the UK and Europe were...

Trustees must "mind the gap" between the sponsoring employer and scheme members, delegates heard.

The Bank of England would like to see more uptake of index linked gilts by institutional investors, but appetite for the paper does not seem to be there.

The move from defined benefit to defined contribution represents a huge transfer of responsibility from employer to employee, meaning member communication has never been more important, as Sebastian Cheek explains

First UK Bus scheme's group reward and pensions director John Chilman explains to Tom Selby how the ‘partially broken' scheme made its remarkable comeback, culminating in success at 2009's Pension Scheme of the Year Awards

A large number of businesses have been forced to scrap restructuring plans because of the section 75 employer debt regime, delegates heard.

EUROPE - European fund managers broke with global trends and switched into defensive stocks in recent weeks, according to Bank of America's (BofA) latest fund manager survey.

UK - Trustees and sponsor companies should look at the company's defined benefit scheme as if it were a subsidiary of the sponsor company, Watson Wyatt head of settlement solutions Michael Chatterton said.

AUSTRALIA - Australian superannuation provider AMP will increase the pension contributions it pays for its employees to 12% from the mandatory 9% by 2014.

Asset liability models have a vital role to play in the investment decision making of pension fund managers, Lane Clark & Peacock says.