Investment

THE Financial Reporting Council has urged trustees to be more vigilant over the actuarial assumptions they use.

INCREASED deficits are set to complicate scheme specific funding liability negotiations, Hewitt Associates warns.

THE Pension Protection Fund has issued important guidance about the information that eligible schemes need to provide to ensure their levies can be calculated correctly.

BMB Group has bought emerging markets private equity firm EMP Global.

TIMING is key for schemes wanting to access long term investment opportunities, Standard Life Investments says.

THE Marathon Club has issued a paper to update its practical guidance for trustees when reviewing the performance of investment managers and advisers.

THE department for work and pensions has postponed the start date for the lower 2.5pc per annum cap on revaluation requirements for deferred benefits.

More than 200 hundred insolvency practitioners have been reported to their professional bodies for failing to advise the Pension Protection Fund and The Pensions Regulator.

Trustees need to be poised and ready to deal with the pensions implications of an increase in redundancies due to economic downturn, lawyers warn.

Fund managers only get around 50pc of their decisions right, latest Inalytics research reveals.