Investment

Charles Suchett-Kaye explains what trustees need to understand about hedge funds in this time of rising liabilities and falling assets

While improving mortality rates might strike the individual as a wholly positive phenomenon, Chris Panteli investigates the headache it causes the pension scheme members and their sponsors

Amid volatile investment markets and increasing liabilities, many companies will be reviewing their pension arrangements. Russell Agius sets out 10 considerations for a more efficient pension scheme

A group of pension funds has told pharmaceutical firms they need more information about the industry's emerging market strategies

Swiss Re is shutting down its variable annuities and pensions business in a bid to scale back its retirement-related activities.

The Pensions Regulator's material detriment test has strayed too far from its intended objectives and risks increasing scheme costs and restricting corporate transactions, Mercer warns.

FAILURE to promote the open market option is costing pensioners around £1.4bn a year and leaving advisers and insurers exposed to mis-selling claims, Rockingham Retirement warns.

Pension funds continued to diversify into direct hedge funds and direct private equity, but are allocating significantly less to real estate, Watson Wyatt says.

BALANCED pooled funds achieved a median return of -6.0% in January 2009, CAPS pooled pension fund performance results from BNY Mellon Asset Servicing reveal.

A FAILURE in corporate governance lies at the heart of the banking crisis, F&C Investments says.