Investment

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.

The interest rates for two new government-backed bonds for the over 65s will be announced on 12 December, Treasury documents show.

Around half of pension schemes are expected to enjoy a reduced Pension Protection Fund (PPF) levy for 2015/16 under its revised framework.

The Chancellor will introduce legislation to stop fund managers disguising their fee income to avoid paying tax.

The Treasury will net an additional £1.15bn in taxes as a result of defined benefit (DB) members transferring to take advantage of incoming defined contribution (DC) freedoms.

A settlement has been reached at Jaguar Land Rover after its workforce threatened industrial action as a proposed pay offer did not meet employees' expectations.

The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has published its 40th annual member survey, charting four decades of change in workplace schemes.