Investment

As the Group SIPP market looks set to enjoy a healthy rate of growth, Helen Morrissey looks at the key drivers behind expansion in the market

THE Pensions Regulator has approved the financial support arrangements for Sea Containers' two UK group pension schemes.

AILING pension schemes should question whether they would be better off staying outside the Pension Protection Fund in order to safeguard members' savings, a lawyer has warned.

FUND managers have sharply conflicting views on how the current downturn will play out, Hewitt Associates says.

Standard Life has agreed to compensate around 97,000 customers who lost out when its Pension Sterling Fund fell by 4.8% last month.

British Telecom could have to pay the Pension Protection Fund £16.6m after its partial exemption from levies was declared illegal by the European Commission.

AUSTRALIA - Barclays Capital has launched an index in a bid to provide a solution for obtaining liquid inflation exposure in markets where access to inflation-linked instruments is illiquid or non-existent.

Scottish Widows is set to enhance its corporate pensions package to give employers the chance to create more tailored schemes.

THE Universities Superannuation Scheme has backed the publication of guidelines for responsible investment by the US Private Equity Council.

Pension funds have huge and unrealised potential to influence the corporate governance of the companies they invest in, Hermes Equity Ownership Services chief executive Colin Melvin claims.