Investment

A new accounting standard will worsen the insolvency scores of hundreds of employers in the Pension Protection Fund, finds Stephanie Baxter

The multi sector credit market has doubled in the past three years to £96bn as schemes seek higher yields in the low return environment, according to Punter Southall Investment Consulting.

Official figures reveal the local government pension scheme (LGPS) had a positive year amid good investment performance but has not addressed the burden of past deficits.

Heathrow has unleashed a number of changes to its final salary scheme to reduce ongoing costs and deliver more affordable benefits to employees.

Pooling local government pensions schemes into six wealth funds will not necessarily boost infrastructure investing. Charlotte Moore looks at the issues that need to be dealt with.

The Investment Association (IA) says it is still absolutely committed to getting better transparency on fund management costs and charges for pension trustees.

Research from The Pensions Regulator (TPR) highlighted major gaps in trustee knowledge. Here are five key findings.

Half of schemes with non-professional trustees do not believe all of these trustees have knowledge levels meeting the standard in the regulator's code of practice.

Christy Jesudasan looks at whether trustees need to take an unbundled approach to fiduciary management fees.

William Bourne and Eamonn O'Connor debate the pros and cons of de-risking