Investment

Trustees should approach upcoming funding negotiations with cash-strapped employers more commercially, a consultant claims.

Let's hope that the recession is as quick to disappear as it was to arrive, but however long it lingers we should plant for green shoots. It's much too late to design products and services for a recession.

Employers no longer have to consult with employees when a group personal pension provider is switched, a lawyer says.

Peter Renalls details the results of the Watson Wyatt/ Professional Pensions annual pensions survey

Rachel Alembakis reports from the fourth annual Global Pensions/Westpac Currency Management Forum held in Sydney

Large investment consultants are increasingly adopting the fiduciary model at a faster pace in the current economic situation, AllenbridgeEPIC says.

Insurance giant Aviva is to make staff across its UK operations contribute to their defined contribution pension fund for the first time.

Pension fund managers should only invest in companies where they are fully satisfied about the long-term potential for business, a report argues.

Aon has announced plans to cut employer contributions to its UK pension by up to half as part of its plan to tackle the recession.

Employers can reap cost savings from pension salary sacrifice in under a year if the employee contributions are in excess of £500,000 per year, Watson Wyatt says.