Investment

The cost of running a defined benefit (DB) scheme is preventing firms from investing, according to research carried out by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).

Jack Jones looks at the findings from the CBI’s biennial pensions survey

Scottish companies have seen deficits in their defined benefit (DB) pension schemes increase from £3.2bn to £6bn over the past year, according to a report.

State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has added a suite of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to its Managed Pension Fund (MPF) wrapper.

Trustees of the Airways Pension Scheme have been forced to put on hold a discretionary increase in payments after British Airways launched legal proceedings to block the move.

There was not a huge amount of support for the Centre for Policy Studies' (CPS) report calling for the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) to put most of its money into passive funds.

Former Pension Protection Fund (PPF) head of restructuring and insolvency Richard Favier has set up as an independent trustee.

MPs will debate whether Ford should recognise a duty of care to its former employees who transferred pensions to the Visteon UK pension fund next week.

US treasury yields jumped yesterday and US futures fell after the second reading of US GDP growth for Q3 saw a large upward revision.

The government is set to remove stamp duty charges on purchases of shares in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).