Investment

Insurance giant Aviva is to make staff across its UK operations contribute to their defined contribution pension fund for the first time.

Pension fund managers should only invest in companies where they are fully satisfied about the long-term potential for business, a report argues.

Aon has announced plans to cut employer contributions to its UK pension by up to half as part of its plan to tackle the recession.

Employers can reap cost savings from pension salary sacrifice in under a year if the employee contributions are in excess of £500,000 per year, Watson Wyatt says.

The deficit of the aggregated pension funds of the FTSE100 has almost doubled from this time last year when measured on an "economic basis", Redington Partners says.

US-based hedge fund manager GLG Partners has completed the acquisition of Société Générale Asset Management UK, the French bank's UK long-only business in a US$6.7m (£4.5m) deal.

Employers cannot afford to ignore the costs associated with deferred members of defined contribution schemes who have left the company, Towers Perrin says.

Investment Solutions has hired Emma Jackson as a defined contribution customer relationship manager in a bid to expand its offering.

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