Investment

Ivan Petej discusses foreign exchange hedging.

Steve Webb will call on the industry to create saving vehicles with affordable guarantees to meet the "huge appetite for certainty" among consumers.

Blackrock has acquired the European private equity and infrastructure fund of funds arm of Swiss Re and entered into a strategic agreement with the re-insurance house.

The Department for Work and Pensions has published guidance on auto-enrolment scheme certification for employers and advisers.

The Actuarial Profession has revised its guidance on how actuaries should manage conflicts of interest when advice is provided to both trustees and sponsorting employers.

The liabilities of the FTSE350's schemes have reached 35% of their sponsoring employers' combined market capitalisation, Aon Hewitt says.

Pension funds run by specialist managers outperform funds run by balanced managers over 20 years, according to Cass Business School research.

Laws preventing employers from inducing workers to opt out of pension schemes come into force today.

The UK Treasury has called off its weekly gilt auctions for a four-week period between mid-July and mid-August during the Olympics.

Barclays bank chairman Marcus Agius has confirmed his resignation, admitting the "the buck stops with me" for the firm's interest rate fixing scandal.