Investment

Trustees need to act quicker to exploit market timing and make better investment strategies in order to assist funding, Standard Life Investments investment director George Emmerson says.

Trustees are becoming increasingly concerned about the impact of defined contribution default funds should Barclays Global Investors be sold.

Pension funds must join forces to overhaul and improve governance across the fund management industry to avoid another "catastrophic" economic failure.

Daily Mail and General Trust have appointed Hewitt Associates to provide scheme actuary and related services to their pension schemes.

Four-fifths of UK corporate pension funds have a responsible investment policy in place, UKSIF research reveals.

The Treasury has "no interest" in changing the policy of restricting higher-rate tax relief on pension contributions for people with incomes over £150,000 from April 2011, the National Association of Pension Funds says.

Mercer has launched a delegated risk management service in a bid to help trustees address funding concerns and speed up decision making.

The Financial Services Authority is set to implement a broader short selling regime for all UK shares.

The department for work and pensions has appointed Isabel Hudson and Bruce Rigby as non-executive directors of The Pensions Regulator.

The trustees of the £270m Express Newspapers 1988 Pension Fund have hired Cardano to take fully delegated responsibility for the scheme's assets and liabilities.