Investment

THE ENGINEERING Employ-ers' Federation Staff Pension Fund has appointed DC Link as third-party administrator to its multi-employer pension scheme.

SCHEMES planning to invest in UK equities this year will benefit from cheap shares and a booming number of mergers and acquisitions, BlackRock believes.

Larger firms are more likely to turn to trust-based defined contribution plans rather than contract arrangements when replacing final salary pensions, research shows.

In the mid-to-late 1990s, average fund of hedge fund returns frequently surpassed 20pc on a year-by-y...

BONDS could post double-digit returns this year if the US economy experiences a sharp downturn, Schroders believes.

STANDARD Life Investments has launched two new real estate investment trust funds for UK and European institutional investors.

REAL estate investment trusts will be of "limited benefit" to schemes, Arlington Securities claims.

PENSION schemes and other institutions invested almost £4bn in overseas securities during the third quarter of 2006, latest figures reveal.

HSBC Investments has launched a new emerging markets fund for institutional investors.

SCHEMES should not be put off investing in infrastructure by "alarmist" claims the sector faces a dot com-style bubble, consultants say.