Investment

Daily Mail and General Trust is to launch an in-house financial awareness programme next year.

JONATHAN STAPLETON speaks to Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) pensions communication and policy manager TERESA BERKENGOFF about its pension quality mark, member communication and an innovative financial awareness programme it is launching for employees....

Two-thirds of pension managers believe schemes need to play a more active role in investment governance.

A national register of independent financial advisers willing to provide annuity advice for people with small pension pots should be created, a lobby group says.

GLOBAL - Worldwide investment fund assets increased 5.4% to €14.39trn (US$21.2trn) at the end of the second quarter of 2009 due to strong inflows, data from the European Fund and Asset Management Association revealed.

New UK life and pensions business at Standard Life has fallen 23% for the first nine months of 2009, compared to the same period last year.

Professional Pensions senior correspondent Giovanni Legorano interviewed BT Pension Scheme pension director Kevin O'Boyle at the National Association of Pension Funds annual conference

British Telecom Pension Scheme pensions director Kevin O'Boyle speaks to PP senior correspondent Giovanni Legorano about how an internal review led the fund to shift to a contract based scheme for the defined contribution members.

Employers and workers are being asked to submit their views on the default retirement age to feed into the official government review taking place next year.

EUROPE - The European Commission has adopted additional proposals clarifying the scope of the new European Supervisory Authorities.