Investment

Aviva Investors has reached a £19m agreement with GreenSquare Group to fund a development of 212 affordable homes in the south of England.

Deficits at the UK's biggest schemes rose more than 20% in January despite big gains on the stock market, according to research from Mercer.

USS continues to move into infrastructure debt to match its liabilities, with its second deal in less than six months to provide long-term inflation-linked financing to a water company.

The government has begun to sell off former assets of the Royal Mail Pension Plan with the sale of £400m of properties to the Santander Pension Scheme.

Partnership has completed two medically underwritten buy-ins in a development academics say could kick-start a £380bn market.

The SR Technics UK scheme has avoided entering the Pension Protection Fund after it was cut adrift of its sponsoring employer as part of a corporate restructuring.

Taha Lokhandwala looks at the options for smoothing discount rates

Philip Sutton welcomes the PPF’s new contingent asset guidance

Hannah Brenton examines the latest figures on scheme assets

Charlotte Moore examines the US economic outlook