Investment

JLT Employee Benefits has appointed Andrien Meyers as a senior investment consultant to help advise the firm's Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) clients.

Understanding members' retirement objectives is key to ensuring default strategies remain fit for purpose according to Tesco group pensions director Ruston Smith.

Pat Sharman believes traditional custodians are not serving UK pension funds well and argues it could be time to shift towards the Dutch approach.

Mitigating the impact of central clearing

Pension schemes have been urged not to rely too much on models when assessing the probability of extreme events affecting portfolios.

Pension funds need to consider alternative approaches before deciding to divest from areas such as fossil fuels according to three major schemes.

JLT Employee Benefits has appointed Phil Wadsworth as chief actuary to replace outgoing Hugh Nolan who has left the company.

Prudential has seen a 46% fall in individual annuity sales during 2015 following the introduction of the April pension freedoms.

The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has launched a taskforce to tackle the problems faced by defined benefit (DB) schemes.

The Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PIP) has launched a multi-strategy fund with a target size of £1bn to allow schemes to invest directly in infrastructure.