Investment

TRANSPORT group Stage-coach is to make a payment of £50m to its final salary pension scheme.

SMALL schemes keen to invest in alternatives are being frustrated by issues of governance and implementation, Morgan Stanley Investment Management says.

TEN UK pension schemes have won more than £20m from AOL Time Warner after breaking away from a major shareholder class action against the media giant.

STATE Street Global Advisors has launched a "130/30" fund for UK institutional investors - a move which was forecast in last week's Fund Management page.

For anyone who missed last week's issue, we are repeating the full shortlist for this year's UK Pensions Awards.

ALMOST two thirds of UK equity managers failed to beat their outperformance targets during the past three years, new research reveals.

INVESTORS are poised to put more cash into "soft" commodities as the commodity cycle turns and demand for biofuels soars, Baring Asset Management believes.

THE NEW director of the £3.6bn London Pensions Fund Authority Vanessa James has outlined her key priorities for the remainder of 2007.

A short-term bond issue by Société Générale gives investors exposure to the 25 largest private equity companies.

SCHEMES would have seen better performance if they had held a proportion of assets in commercial property over the past 20 years, new research shows.