Investment

AN alliance of investors has urged 100 of the world's biggest companies to join an initiative to improve their policies and practices around the use of water.

THE FTSE has confirmed the latest companies to leave and join the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 indices.

A Society of Pension Consultants idea which could see employers reducing contributions with The Pensions Regulator's permission may be out of the body's remit, HamishWilson says.

PENSION funds abandoning diversification strategies as a response to losses caused by market turmoil could miss investment opportunities, asset managers warn.

The option for trustees to commute small "stranded pension pots" of less than £2000 has been put on hold until the middle of 2009.

GERMANY - The €2.4bn (US$3bn) North Rhine-Westphalia mandatory buffer fund for civil servant pension provision (Versorgungsrücklage) has awarded around €800m to Deutsche Bundesbank this month, MandateWire reports.

The Principles for Responsible Investment is planning to launch a global and non-commercial database on investment research focused on environmental, social and governance issues.

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.