Investment

Pension fund trustees are increasingly responsible for managing risk, but lack the skills to do, according to research by a pension consultancy.

Pictet Asset Management has hired Barings multi-asset trio Percival Stanion, Andrew Cole and Shaniel Ramjee to lead a push into the space.

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group Pension Scheme says its in-house investment team has generated an extra £1.1bn in value over the last four years.

UK investors lost out on more than £680m in rightful returns from foreign shares and bonds in the latest financial year, according to new research.

Vanguard will lower fees on a broad range of UK and Irish-domiciled funds from 1 September.

Fiduciary myth busters by Sion Cole, Aon Hewitt.

Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) increased its operating profit by 200% in the first half of the year following a string of new bulk annuity contracts.

Railpen Investments wants to have fewer and deeper relationships with asset managers after discovering that headline fees are around just a fifth of total fees.

Demand for Neil Woodford's fund has helped make the UK equity income sector the best-selling category for a second month in a row.

Schemes lack the correct tools to hold their asset managers and consultants to account, according to a leading academic.