Investment

Almost a third (30%) of pension professionals support employers having more power to renegotiate benefits or reduce accrued rights, research from the Pensions Management Institute (PMI) has shown.

Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) members will meet The Pensions Regulator (TPR) next month after lobby groups warned just 12 funds highlighted climate change risks in their investment strategy statements.

Asset managers will come under increasing scrutiny to be good stewards of pension funds once the UK leaves the European Union, Jonathan Lipkin has predicted.

The Investment Association (IA) has set out guidelines for how FTSE-listed companies should report on long-term performance, as part of its campaign to deter short-term behaviour.

The combined deficit of the UK's defined benefit (DB) schemes grew by 30% over the last 12 months, according to the Pension Protection Fund (PPF).

Deficits could fall by hundreds of billions of pounds if the six-year stall in life expectancy improvements becomes a long-term trend. However, there is a risk of taking too much notice of short-term changes, writes Stephanie Baxter.

The impact of a takeover on a pension scheme can be significant. Tom Jackman looks at how trustees can ensure they are on the front foot.

Schemes have been urged to vote against executive pay proposals at both Shell and BP in protest against incentives to increase short term production.

With one in eight DB schemes still open to new members, Michael Klimes explores the argument that they should be run differently from closed ones

BlackRock is rolling out seven new tracker funds for its authorised contractual scheme (ACS) after launching the UK's first tax transparent Fund (TTF) three years ago.