Investment

Trustees have been warned to keep an eye on weakening employer covenants even after a positive aggregate funding experience in the last three years as myriad funding and investment issues pose risks to defined benefit (DB) schemes.

The £40m WR Swann & Co Limited Retirement Benefits Scheme has appointed Aon to provide fiduciary management services.

While trustees are split on whether compulsory knowledge should include a full regulatory understanding of the process of a pension transfer, many agree it could help better protect vulnerable savers.

The revised defined benefit (DB) funding code is not likely to be live until late 2022, The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has said.

There are clear signs of a forthcoming revival in global dividends following the first quarter of 2021, the latest Janus Henderson global dividend index shows.

Fiduciary managers maintained their investment strategies across 2020 despite high market volatility and some hair-raising losses during the first quarter, XPS Pensions Group research finds.

UK banks and asset managers were responsible for financing 805 million tonnes of CO2 in 2019, which would make the City of London the ninth biggest emitter in the world if it were a country, according to a report by Greenpeace UK and the World Wildlife...

The majority of sub-£250m schemes plan to achieve a buyout as their scheme’s endgame even if pricing opportunities are not necessarily in their favour, Mercer research finds.

Find out what other investors expect for the economy, inflation and bond yields; what the implications are for investors; and areas of fixed income worth considering.

Northern Trust has been appointed by Coal Pension Trustees Services to provide asset servicing solutions for two coal industry schemes.