Investment

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".

FRANCE - BNP Paribas has backtracked on a statement made Wednesday by Michel Anastassiades, global chief executive of subsidiary FundQuest, about the state of negotiations over the Fortis acquisition.

FRANCE- BNP Paribas believes Fortis shareholders who blocked its acquisition of the troubled bank have changed their stance and BNP will be able to successfully negotiate a deal by the March 6 deadline.

CONTRACT based defined contribution schemes in the FTSE100 provide excessive investment choice compared with trust based DC alternatives, a Watson Wyatt survey reveals.

Falling markets have left some investments in defined contribution schemes worth less than the cash contributions made into them, PricewaterhouseCoopers says.

Pension funds should accept some degree of responsibility for the investment practices which have cause the global economic crisis, the UN Principles for Responsible Investment Initiative says.

UK - Falling markets have left some investments in defined contribution schemes worth less than the cash contributions made into them, PricewaterhouseCoopers says.