Investment

Discussions are progressing on creating a UK infrastructure investment platform to sit alongside the main LGPS pools.

Industry veteran Neil Woodford has become one of the first fund managers to stop charging clients for research, paving the way for further changes around fee transparency in the asset management industry.

People coming up to retirement are still uncertain about how the new state pension will affect them according to research by Which.

Just Retirement and Partnership have finalised their merger to become JRP Group which will manage a total of more than £15bn assets.

Volatility of bulk annuity pricing is likely to continue in the coming months amid difficult market conditions according to Aon Hewitt.

Maintaining public sector pensions will cost £3bn more each year with employer contributions expected to rise according to KPMG.

Aegon is reducing or simplifying charges for over 600,000 contributing members of workplace schemes, according to its independent governance committee (IGC).

The trustee of the Home Retail Group's pension scheme has agreed its future funding with Sainsbury's which is set to acquire the business from Argos.

Deficits in all private UK defined benefit (DB) schemes worsened in March amid low interest rates and a worsening economic outlook.

Defined benefit members are taking advantage of the flexibilities through a number of ways according to research.