Investment

Fund managers' and pension funds' dedication to pursuing short-term investment goals is causing severely reduced returns, a panel of MPs heard.

Moody's downgrade of the UK economy could impact liability driven investment contracts and scheme discount rates, consultants warn.

European bond and stock markets saw a sharp sell-off on Monday after a shock result from the Italian election, where no political group managed to win a majority vote.

Engineering giant GKN has split its UK defined benefit scheme into two in its latest annual move to curtail scheme deficits and reduce risk, its 2012 final results reveal.

Con Keating outlines a different method for scheme valuations

Hannah Brenton looks at whether pension funds could benefit from government plans to ease the rules on office-to-residential conversions

Taha Lokhandwala on the challenges to healthy scheme funding

A fire has put one of three deep mines run by UK Coal at serious risk of closure just months after a deal with its pension scheme appeared to have secured its future.

Moody's has stripped the UK of its AAA credit rating on fears over rising government debt and years of slow economic growth ahead.

The trend for ‘big four' auditors to focus on management aims of clients rather than shareholder need leads to "significant dissatisfaction" for institutional investors, the Competition Commission says.