Investment

Employers are potentially leaving themselves on the hook for significant unprotected retirement costs when closing defined benefit (DB) schemes.

Museum and gallery workers have taken part in ongoing national strike action over changes to civil service pension scheme terms.

The Royal Mail is planning to cap pensionable pay increases for members of its pension plan as costs escalate and privatisation looms, despite a liability transfer to the government.

The vast majority of respondents are anxious about the effects of inflation.

Fewer than one in 10 respondents expect schemes to be fully funded within the next couple of years.

The incoming governor of the Bank of England (BoE) may introduce more quantitative easing and attempt to devalue the pound, the world's biggest bond fund manager predicted yesterday.

Pension funds should use the techniques of the best global macro hedge fund managers to control risk and volatility while producing absolute returns, the Cern Pension Fund chief executive says.

Consolidation is not popular at the LGPS coalface, Rachel Dalton says

Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) investment regulations must be relaxed immediately in order to make the 2014 reformed scheme a success, industry figures say.

Taha Lokhandwala examines the differences between target date, LDI and life-styling approaches