Investment

Tom Becket examines the investment impact of France’s economic woes

Threadneedle parent company Ameriprise Financial is preparing an £800m bid for Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, according to reports.

The Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF) is targeting Barclays and National Express in its latest governance drive.

Most respondents were unsure of the relative merits of using cap-weighted indices to measure fund managers' performance.

Respondents were not really persuaded that there was a lack of capacity in the market for advisers on fiduciary management.

Investors have exposed themselves to a $6trn (£3.9trn) "carbon bubble" by failing to address sustainability, research says.

JLT Employee Benefits (JLTEB) has launched an investment platform for defined benefit trustees.

Source Pensions has added a range of low-cost Vanguard tracker funds to its online occupational defined contribution platform.

Sainsbury's has announced it is consulting staff members on closing the company's defined benefit scheme to future accrual.

Debenhams has cut its defined benefit deficit by more than a half in the last six months as it shifts its investment focus, its half year results show.