Investment

Confidence in pensions has increased by 10 percentage points since the end of last year, the National Association of Pension Funds says.

BAE Systems has paid £100m into its UK schemes over the third quarter in a bid to further reduce its pension deficit.

A Conservative government will investigate early auto-enrolment proposals "as a priority," Theresa May says.

UK - ITV has started preliminary discussions with the trustees of its pension fund over a partnership arrangement under which one of its subsidiaries would provide asset backing to the scheme.

FINLAND - European pension funds scooped up nearly a fifth of Finland's recent €3bn (US$4.4bn) bond issuance, the State Treasury said.

Fewer than half of women, 47%, are saving adequately for retirement compared with 59% of men, a Scottish Widows report reveals.

Members of struggling defined benefit schemes could lose out on £150m of benefits unless the trustees take control of their investment strategy, a consultant warns.

So, who saw last Monday night's Dispatches on Channel 4 then? The programme asked the question "who stole our pensions?" without really ever coming up with an answer.

ITV has started preliminary discussions with the trustees of its pension fund over a partnership arrangement under which one of its subsidiaries would provide asset backing to the scheme.

UK - Pension fund apathy on environmental issues twinned with short-term analysis of the problem has suppressed the inclusion of climate change in investment decision making, new research showed.