Investment

A methodology for assessing longevity basis risk developed by Hymans Robertson and Cass Business School will help bring index-based longevity swaps into the mainstream, say actuaries.

The total deficit of schemes covered by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has climbed to its highest level since April 2013, latest figures show.

The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) has agreed to carry out a broad survey of members to discover their views on non-financial investment concerns.

Partnership has completed a £206m buy-in covering high value members of a "multi-billion pound scheme" in the biggest medically underwritten bulk annuity deal to date.

Natasha Browne looks at the effects of an index-linked gilt shortage and asks how else schemes can hedge against inflation

PP has launched an event to guide defined benefit (DB) trustees and managers ahead of the incoming pensions flexibilities at an event next year.

The biggest stories on PP this week include the winners of our first investment awards, the end of the death tax on annuities and the emergence of a market in distressed pensions debt. Here's what you might have missed.

In chapter two of our roundtable sponsored by Putnam Investments we ask a panel of experts where schemes should invest if they don't want to go down the hedge fund route.

The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) is planning to add single-year maturity gilt funds to the ‘building block' funds it uses in its default retirement date funds.

University staff will meet senior board members of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) today to urge it to consider their ethical views and drop investments such as tobacco.