Investment

Attractive valuations and prospects for economic recovery support small-caps

While the majority (92%) of pension funds in the UK plan to increase their allocations to renewables, the economic impacts of the coronavirus will see larger climate-positive moves such a fossil fuel divestment significant delayed, Octopus Renewables...

We are now approaching the first anniversary of trustees required to set strategic objectives for their investment consultants, Grant Suckling writes.

The majority of employers currently support the simplification of the pension tax regime, with evidence mounting of its adverse impacts, the Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) finds.

Ross Trustees has secured investment backing from private equity investor LDC, as it prepares to capitalise on growing demand for professional trustee services.

Lee Sanders says the fast and adaptive market response to the crisis of 2020 has shown how much the financial system has improved upon the credit market liquidity issues that were at the heart of the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC).

Defined benefit (DB) schemes that provide GMPs must revisit and, where necessary, top-up historic cash equivalent transfer values (CETVs) that have been calculated on an unequal basis, a landmark court judgment said last week.

The stabilisation of US economic growth amid unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus has raised questions about the likelihood of inflation returning. Global Head of Fixed Income, Jim Cielinski, and Global Bonds Portfolio Manager, Andy Mulliner, explain...