Investment

Professional Pensions asks some of the leading providers in the fiduciary management space about this form of investment governance.

Falls in gilt yields - driven both by quantitative easing and investor demand for ‘safe haven assets' - have contributed to pension scheme liabilities and deficits rising to near record levels.

Axa Investment Management has urged the Financial Services Authority to strengthen LIBOR standards rather than scrapping the rate altogether and risk damaging pension schemes.

The Pensions Action Group and a communications consultant has criticised the timing and messages of the Department for Work and Pensions' auto-enrolment TV campaign.

The LIBOR system is "broken and needs a complete overhaul", according to Financial Services Authority's head of conduct Martin Wheatley.

Mercer has praised the National Employment Savings Trust's method of putting new members into low-risk investments, just a year after raising concerns about the practice.

A change to the way Retail Prices Index is calculated could wipe billions off scheme liabilities but translate directly into decreased member benefits, experts warn.

Finding investment solutions for the pensions crisis

Investment consultants and pension funds have reacted with caution to the bonds that would be created by business secretary Vince Cable's proposed ‘business bank'.

Nine out of ten people in the industry believe the Pension Protection Fund should be more open about its reasons for denying entry to schemes, according to exclusive PP research.