Investment

Stephen Nichols explains how to spot, recruit and retain a good trustee

Philip Meadowcroft explains how and why trustees should hold firms their schemes invest in to account

The Hozelock Limited Pension and Assurance Scheme has appointed Aon Hewitt to provide actuarial, investment consulting and scheme management services.

Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) has invested £74m into a private finance initiative (PFI) bond which will fund 1,100 homes in Manchester.

Developed market equities, gilts and bonds are overvalued, a growing proportion of investors and analysts believe.

Defined benefit (DB) schemes' deficits have fallen on average over 2013 and funding levels have remained high, JLT Employee Benefits (JLT EB) figures show.

Premier Foods is in talks with trustees of its defined benefit (DB) scheme to reduce its liabilities as part of a corporate restructuring, according to reports in the Financial Times (FT).

The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has issued a consultation on its "generous" pension offer for firefighters.

BAE Systems has selected PwC's online analysis platform, Skyval, to monitor and manage its obligations across the company's seven UK schemes.

A judge has ruled The Pensions Regulator (TPR) may issue multiple contribution notices to Lehman Brothers companies that exceed the value of its scheme's section 75 (s75) debt.