Investment

Schemes fighting court cases are being forced to walk an investment "tightrope" in the Pension Protection Fund assessment period as they struggle to secure better than PPF-level benefits.

Investors have backed proposals from the European Commission (EC) to improve transparency on environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting.

Tesco has seen its defined benefit deficit increase by more than £500m despite a bump in contributions after its triennial review, its final results show.

Local authority leaders no longer consider pensions to be a major concern for their sector, according to an Ipsos Mori poll.

George Osborne's austerity plan came under attack today from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after it downgraded the outlook for UK growth by more than any other advanced economy.

Ashok Vaswani, chief executive of retail and business at Barclays, has admitted that 2012 was a "very difficult year" for the bank, and said the decision to release details of staff's £38.5m bonus details on Budget day was a "mistake" but claimed it was...

Invesco Perpetual’s Nick Mustoe asks if schemes are too shy of equities

Hannah Brenton analyses the Bank of Japan's monetary stimulus

Roger Brown on the value of investment qualifications

UK pension schemes plan to further cut their exposure to domestic equities at a time when allocations are already at historic lows, an Aon Hewitt survey found.