Investment

UPDATED clearance and abandonment guidance from The Pensions Regulator has been released which brings it in line with the Pensions Act 2008.

THREE investment associations have opposed public disclosure of short selling information.

PENSION fund trustees are facing average returns of -13pc for 2008, preliminary State Street Investment Analytics figures reveal.

ITM has backed guidance from The Pensions Regulator which identifies conditional data dependent on scheme types.

THE Financial Services Authority is set to end its ban on the short selling of stocks of UK financial sector companies.

Friends Provident is simplifying its fund choice for company pension schemes.

CITIGROUP has become the latest investment bank to lose its UK transition management team as investment consultants Mercer claim pension funds are now favouring the security of the asset management model.

Keren Holland talks to Joe Haslip, assistant controller for pensions, New York City about how the funds are coping in this challenging environment

Susan Jones looks at how irrationality in decision making can be harnessed to improve retirement saving in defined contribution pension schemes

Andrew Sheen takes a look at how current economic turmoil is affecting defined benefit pensions