Investment

Friends Life has launched a customer panel made up of 500 members of its corporate pension schemes in a bid to further improve its service.

Right now, John Kay's interim report of his review into the equity markets is one of the best reads around.

John Walbaum puts forward a different approach to helping retirees attain a decent income.

Schemes are increasingly delegating investment decisions to a separate committee or fiduciary manager, according to research from Russell Investments.

Trustees of the Jerome Group Pension Fund have begun proceedings to recover almost £3m from the administrators of Glasgow Rangers FC.

Strathclyde Pension Fund has forced a shareholder meeting at Lochard Energy in a bid to oust two of the group's directors.

Liberal Democrats in government must act more urgently to radically reform public and private occupational pensions, delegates at the party's Spring Conference will hear.

Labour's Rachel Reeves has attacked the government for forcing the Bank of England's to pursue its deficit-wrecking QE policy to "compensate" for its poor fiscal support.

Alan Brown, the chief investment officer at Schroders, is to step down from the board and from his role at the next AGM.

Falling gilt yields have pushed schemes £90bn deeper into deficit since the second round of quantitative easing in October last year, the NAPF says.