Investment

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

Steve Dainty tells Naomi Rainey how he brought together the Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire schemes

The FTSE 100 rose 6.43% or 379.07 points in January, making this the strongest start to a year since 1989.

The £1.2bn Cornwall Council Pension Fund has appointed Invesco Perpetual to manage its £50m diversified grown mandate.

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F&C Asset Management revealed net outflows of £4.9bn in the last quarter of 2012, as the investment house struggles to regain momentum under activist investor Edward Bramson.