Investment

M&G Real Estate fund manager Dermot Kiernan talks to Professional Pensions about the outlook for UK property market in 2015 and the best investment opportunities.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is asking annuity providers to look into their non-advised sales going back to 2008 to see if consumers missed out on higher income by buying the wrong type of annuity.

The MacDermid Canning Pension Scheme has bought out its 670-member scheme using Aon Hewitt's implemented annuities service.

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.