Investment

The trustees for Amey OS Pension Scheme have agreed two separate buy-in policies with Just Retirement, worth a total of £65m.

Absolute return vehicles are coming under scrutiny from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as part of its work looking at whether asset managers are offering investors value for money.

Long-awaited changes to the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) compensation cap are facing continued delays, PP understands

Brick maker Ibstock is consulting on closing its defined benefit (DB) scheme to future accrual, potentially affecting 40% of the company's UK staff.

Co-operative Bank has been given the right to a refund of surplus in the Britannia Pension Scheme, after consulting the trustee and lawyers.

Deferred members dominate the DB universe but the high cost of insuring them makes bulk annuities out of reach for many schemes, even more so since the introduction of Solvency II. Kristian Brunt-Seymour explores what schemes can do.

More than 100,000 people have signed a parliamentary petition to demand the government re-consider proposed changes to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) investment regulations.

The Bank of England (BoE) has purchased more than £3bn worth of long-dated gilts as part of its latest stimulus package, after failing to meet targets last week.

Inflation measured on the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) increased to 0.6% in the year to July 2016 according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

DB schemes are juggling the need to have sufficient cash to pay out pensions while still generating returns. Helen Morrissey asks if liquidity ladders are the answer