Investment

Defined contribution (DC) schemes offered to staff of FTSE350 firms are still overly invested in equities with stagnant allocations, according to research from Schroders.

City of London Corporation has handed a £45m infrastructure mandate for its pension fund and Bridge House Estates portfolios to Industry Funds Management (IFM) Investors.

Helen Morrissey looks at growing interest in sustainable investment

Taha Lokhandwala explores an OECD report on infrastructure investment and how to increase it

Helen Morrissey looks at the practical issues facing schemes investing in infrastructure debt

The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) has announced an agreement to invest £392m in Heathrow Airport on 24 October.

A buyout which kept the MF Global scheme out of the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) was only achieved after the scheme's insolvent employer was threatened with regulatory action, says The Pensions Regulator (TPR).

US employment figures for September have missed expectations which could all but rules out the prospect of a slowdown in US quantiative easing (QE) before 2014.

Trustees of Cooper Tire's UK scheme have asked The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to intervene in the sale of its US parent company to Apollo Tyres, according to reports in the Financial Times.

Hymans Robertson's long standing onlineNavigator tool has been updated to provide trustees with instant information on scheme funding levels and cash flows.