Investment

Schroders has launched a de-risking service for smaller-sized schemes and focussing on increasing funding level protection.

UK schemes have slashed equity allocations to below 40% in the past year, bringing portfolios more in line with their European counterparts, according to Mercer.

Naomi Rainey on the benefits of diversification

Two out of five contributors think none of the Department for Work and Pensions' preferred options for defined benefit-lite will find favour with employers. Among those who thought some of the ideas might be taken up, the majority thought cash balance...

Legal and General Property (LGP) has agreed to forward fund a £25.7m student accommodation scheme pre-let to the University of the Arts London.

Jack Jones says the regulator has got it right

Hannah Brenton analyses the central bank’s record rate cut and where it might turn next

Pensions minister Steve Webb has created a working group to consider reforming multi-employer defined benefit schemes to help charities struggling with liabilities.

Linklater’s Phil Goss and Alasdair Smith ask if Kodak’s settlement with TPR and the PPF will open the floodgates

Buck Consultants is consulting with its UK employees on closing its defined benefit final salary offering by the end of 2014, PP has learnt.