Investment

Professional Pensions is set to publish a special focus on emerging markets in August.

The Trades Union Congress has called on the government to ban employers from passing on scheme consultancy charges to auto-enrolled staff.

State Street Global Advisors has launched 22 leveraged swap funds as part of its liability driven investment suite.

Daily Mail and General Trust has set up a £150m partnership using contingent assets to fund its largest defined benefit scheme.

Schemes are using investment outperformance to cut employer contributions by as much as 30% over the next decade, as low discount rates continue to inflate liabilities.

Roche Products Pension Trust Limited has appointed Mercer as the fiduciary manager for the pharmaceutical firm's £500m UK defined benefit scheme.

The UK economy shrank by 0.7% in the second quarter of the year, a far worse contraction than economists had forecast, keeping the UK mired in recession.

Dalriada Trustees has launched a High Court action against three investment companies and two former trustees in a bid to recover £18m of assets invested in two alleged pension liberation schemes.

Labour's pensions spokesman on how to restore trust in pensions

ISS UK has appointed Now:Pensions to provide an auto-enrolment scheme for its workforce from its staging date of January 2013.