Investment

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has put into effect changes to actuarial assumptions used in sponsor insolvencies and to calculate risk-based levies.

Charlotte Moore looks at the impact 2016's political events have had on pension schemes and asks how they can prepare for the future.

John Stannard offers a view on establishing whether fiduciary management is the right approach for a scheme.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will issue a green paper on the future of defined benefit (DB) schemes in early 2017, the pensions minister has confirmed.

A quarter of schemes may see no improvement in deficits in 20 years because many are still not integrating long-term covenant risk, according to research.

The Go-Ahead Group has announced it is revising the accounting policy for its rail pension schemes.

European pension plans regard Brexit as a headwind for global growth according to a report by CREATE-Research and Amundi.

Aggregate Industries Pension Plan has completed a £135m pensioner buy-in with Just Retirement.

JPMorgan Asset Management has cut the charges on its Life Diversified Growth Fund (DGF) and introduced greater flexibility to the investment strategy.

This year has delivered several political shocks for UK schemes in the form of Brexit and the outcome of the US general election. However, as Europe gears up for a round of elections next year Helen Morrissey asks what schemes need to watch out for.