Investment

Trustees have been urged to halt moves towards passive equity funds and reconsider the benefits of active investing, Hewitt Associates says.

Balanced pooled funds have strengthened further in August 2009 with a median return of 6.0%, latest CAPS pooled pension fund performance results from BNY Mellon Asset Servicing reveal.

Swisscanto is set to offer specialist fixed income and global equity to UK pension schemes for the first time following an internal strategic review.

The latest Professional Pensions Conjecture debate - to be held on September 29 -will look at the key issues surrounding delegated consulting.

BRAZIL - The government of Brazil has lifted the limits on pension fund investments, allowing up to 70% of assets to be allocated to equities and backing exposure to international markets.

It's a good job that John Sergeant was only presenting last week's Scheme of the Year Awards and not judging them. He would have been slightly conflicted as he was a member of two of the winning schemes (no prizes for guessing which ones) and his wife...

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers has issued a stark warning to the Financial Services Authority over the "unintended consequences" of applying proposals in the RDR to the corporate pensions market.

Scheme managers are split over whether the retirement age should be increased to 70.

Employers seeking to reduce costs should consider explicitly targeting employee benefits in a bid to mitigate the unintended consequences of pay cuts on pensions, a HSBC Actuaries and Consultants report says.

UK - Reforms introducing auto-enrolment, employer duties and personal accounts will be staged in over a three year period from 2012, the department for work and pensions said.