Investment

Standard Life has announced it is closing its defined benefit (DB) scheme to future accrual from April 2016.

US financial services giant TIAA-CREF has opened a distribution office in the UK for its asset management business.

Unilever UK Pension Fund, The Pensions Trust and the Environment Agency Pension Fund are among the latest schemes to sign up to responsible investment.

Local Government Pension Schemes (LGPS) would earn an extra £28bn over the next two decades by replacing active managers with passive managers, according to research.

Fiduciary myth busters by Sion Cole, Aon Hewitt.

The Baring Multi-Asset fund has lost over half of its assets in a month after Andrew Cole, Percival Stanion and Shaniel Ramjee left the group.

Fiduciary myth busters by Sion Cole, Aon Hewitt.

Charlotte Moore finds schemes need to stick to the basics and diversify to protect returns from geopolitical risk

Natasha Browne looks at how schemes can respond to shock manager exits