Investment

Natasha Browne rounds up views from the NAPF Investment Conference on agriculture, infrastructure and EM debt

Naomi Rainey looks at the trend for investment that brings social as well as financial benefit

Helen Morrissey looks at where responsibility lies in fiduciary management arrangements

The combined deficit at UK schemes shrunk by 20% last month, according to figures from the Pension Protection Fund (PPF).

Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) has confirmed it will scrap pensionable pay increases in its defined benefit (DB) schemes from April, netting a one-off saving of £1bn.

PwC has added two partners, Julia Dickson and Gavin Stoner, to its employer covenant assessment team, taking its number of staff to 50.

The final batch of regulations for Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) 2014 has been laid before Parliament.

HM Revenue and Customs has announced measures to help defined benefit (DB) schemes handle the administration associated with the abolition of contracting out.

Contributors were divided over the question of whether volatility was a good measure of risk. Four out of ten warned against conflating the two.

Investment in renewables is not subject to political wrangling over energy in the UK, chairman of the Green Investment Bank (GIB) Lord Smith has said.