Investment

JPMorgan Asset Management's UK institutional business received more than US$4.2bn (£3.03bn) in new assets last year.

UK - The £1.4bn Avon Pension Fund has hired Partners Group and Schroders to manage a property mandate worth approximately £180m.

US - S&P has released the first in a range of global low carbon indices, designed to meet increasing investor demand for environmentally focussed indices.

Final salary pension schemes experienced the highest five-day volatility on record, with the biggest single day loss of £27bn on Monday, Aon Consulting says.

The Pension Protection Fund will take over the role of scheme manager for the Financial Assistance Scheme this summer, latest regulations reveal.

BNP Paribas has become the latest financial institution to scale back its pension team.

In the latest of our series of fortnightly interviews with scheme managers, GIOVANNI LEGORANO talks to Royal Mail Pension Trustees chief executive Gerry Degaute about the problems posed by the current economic environment and how they can be addressed...

Sebastian Cheek discusses how an understanding of behavioural finance finance can help to encourage DC members take a more active interest in their pension scheme

The Bank of England has cut interest rates for the sixth consecutive month today, reaching a new record low of just 0.5%.

Listed private equity fund of funds SVG Capital has posted a decline in net assets per share of 64.3%, in what the company's chairman Nicholas Ferguson called "the most difficult period in the company's history".