Investment

THE NATIONAL Association of Pension Funds has backed media group Aegis in its fight to keep its competitors' representatives off its board.

THE UNITED Kingdom Social Investment Forum has launched a new campaign to encourage pension funds to adopt responsible investment.

A QUARTER of schemes rely on in-house resources to select investment managers, research sponsored by Lake Shore Asset Management shows.

TACKLING the risk of defined contribution schemes will play a major part of The Pensions Regulator's role in the future, warned its chairman David Norgrove.

HOPES that transition managers can agree a code of practice have risen - despite a key player pulling out of crucial talks.

PENSION schemes should make "a classic evaluation" of a new transition manager and not just rely on a trusted provider, delegates heard.

SCHEMES have little hope of achieving outperformance unless trustees set "unrealistically aggressive" targets, a new study shows.

GARTMORE Investment Man-agement is planning a major restructuring following the recent take-over led by Hellman & Friedman.

THE pen-pushing, paper-shuffling brigade have been exceedingly busy over the past few years, ratifyin...

INSTITUTIONAL investors can generate returns by harnessing the growing desire for luxury goods among China, Russia and India's burgeoning middle classes, Pictet Asset Management says.