Investment

Aon Consulting and Russell Investments have teamed up to launch a product to manage both the assets and liabilities of pension funds.

The £1bn Somerset County Council pension fund has allocated £30m to emerging markets.

Balanced pooled funds achieved a median return of -5.7% in February 2009, latest CAPS pooled pension fund performance results from BNY Mellon Asset Servicing reveal.

GERMANY - Deutsche Börse has released a new index family based on the government bond market, comprising six Eurogov indices.

Friends Provident has implemented an industry-wide open market option system in a bid to speed up the payment of transfers to annuity providers.

Setting up an effective default fund investment strategy will be a crucial step in ensuring auto-enrolment works for everyone, the Investment Management Association says.

In another of PP's bi-monthly interviews with scheme managers, Sebastian Cheek speaks to Telegraph Pension Scheme pensions manager James Churcher

Mark Baker of Pinsent Masons suggests the economic turmoil has given scheme-specific valuations an extra level of complication, forcing trustees and companies to become more flexible than ever in these trying times

Charles Cotton discusses the different approaches to pension benefits in the public and private sectors

As employers with DC schemes are discovering, bad news prompts questions about risk. Members of company pension schemes suddenly want to know more about their savings and how they can avoid loss. Some are asking whether they can simply cash in their pensions...