Investment

Nearly half (45%) of defined benefit (DB) members approaching retirement do not feel informed enough to decide whether to transfer their pension, a survey has revealed.

Professional Pensions has teamed up with Pension Funds Online to bring you the list of the biggest pension schemes in the country along with the details of their advisers, providers and asset managers.

Jupiter Asset Management fund manager Charlie Thomas says there is increasing "symmetry" between pensions and long-term environmental investing.

Global growth expectations are picking up as economies show resilience to the major political events of recent months, according to BlackRock Investment Institute.

Mature schemes must have a strategy in place to ensure they sell their assets in the most efficient way possible.

Investors will eye up active and alternative strategies next year to help them cope with market volatility arising from economic and political forces, according to research.

The funding deficit of defined benefit (DB) schemes dropped almost 30% to £194.7bn over November, according to the Pension Protection Fund's (PPF) latest update.

Equalisation problems from the 1990s are increasingly coming out of the woodwork as more schemes go down the bulk annuity route. The consequences can be enormous but there are ways to tackle it, writes Stephanie Baxter

Witold Bahrke believes we should get used to lower returns from fixed income investments going forward.

A victory for trustees in a landmark High Court battle would result in employers being scared to agree to recovery plans, the lawyer for British Airways (BA) has argued.