Investment

THE National Association of Pension Funds has urged the chancellor to issue more long-dated debt.

ORTEC has appointed Andrew Slater as managing director of its UK office in a bid to expand its business outside of the Netherlands.

Charlotte Moore discusses the ways in which a fund can gain access to underlying market performance while also ensuring the protection of its liabilities

INDEPENDENT Trustee Services has started legal action against GP Noble, its director Graham Pitcher and several other financial services firms, PP has learned.

THE Pension Protection Fund has confirmed that it has set a pension protection levy estimate of £700m for 2009/10.

TRUSTEES must remain vigilant in the current economic turmoil but it is essential their thinking remains long-term, delegates heard.

PENSION PROTECTION FUND proposals to include longer-term risk in its levy calculations will lead to relatively well-funded schemes with strong sponsors paying more, Watson Wyatt says.

A LACK of transparent information is making it difficult for trustees to assess where the underlying investment risk lies within their portfolios, Horwath Clark Whitehill research reveals.

AUSTRALIA - Senator Nick Sherry, minister for superannuation and corporate law has formally launched the Capital Markets Co-operative Research Centre, designed to focus on market manipulation and fraud.

THE Pension Protection Fund has gone out to consultation on proposals to take account of scheme investment strategies when calculating levies.