Investment

The PPF 7800 deficit was slashed in half last month as gilt yields rose. Victoria Ticha asks if this is the start of a longer trend

A new cost transparency solution is being developed for pension schemes by a financial services technology firm.

Andrew Milligan says there are few tell-tale imbalances that would suggest the business cycle will soon end, but any profits disappointment could cause a sharp reassessment of risk

Scottish Widows and Lloyds Banking Group's (LBG's) wealth businesses have decided to review their asset management arrangements and terminate their partnership arrangements with Standard Life Aberdeen.

Ensuring British Steel workers were well-equipped to make a decision on their future pension provision was "afforded insufficient priority", and the regulator now needs to review the process, the Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) has said.

Mark Hodgson explains how model-driven, volatility-linked trading strategies such as risk parity can fail should risk spike or predicted correlations between equities and bonds break down.

This week we want to know whether investment strategies are becoming too complex for the average member-nominated trustee without having actuarial and legal advice.

The UK inflation rate remained flat at 3% in January, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), beating analysts' expectations of a drop to 2.9%.

John Walbaum asks if we have forgotten the realities of equity markets and questions whether recent market falls are part of a longer-term collapse.

The combined defined benefit (DB) deficit decreased by £52.8bn over January to £51.0bn on a section 179 basis, according to the Pension Protection Fund's (PPF's) latest update.