Investment

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.

GLOBAL - Sovereign wealth funds invest about US$1trn in international equity, less than half the amount of assets under management at the ten largest sovereign wealth funds, a new report found.

GLOBAL - Inflation is unlikely to be a threat in the short term due to the current levels of economic growth and the government policies implemented around the world, the latest global economic research by Baring Asset Management (BAM) has revealed.

The £10.6bn Shell Contributory Pension Fund is set to invest 5% of its portfolio in hedge funds and other alternatives for the first time, a trustee newsletter reveals.