Investment

Steve Webb has outlined two "big bang" solutions to the issue of small pot consolidation.

The Pensions Regulator has laid out six principles for defined contribution pensions to address the currently "mixed" standards across the market.

HSBC Global Asset Management has launched the HSBC GIF Frontier Markets, a long-only equity portfolio, to give institutional investors exposure to frontier markets.

M&G has launched a fund facilitating loans to UK social housing associations with an initial £200m capital from clients.

Accounting standards were a "root cause" of the financial crisis and should be subject to a comprehensive review, according to the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum.

The Pensions Regulator is in talks with the trustee and sponsor of the Dawson International pension schemes to find a way to plug its £50m deficit.

Andrew Short takes a look at tactics for dealing with tail risk and considers the emergence of dedicated tail risk products

The UK and the eurozone will fall back into recession in the next 12 months as countries try to cope with a serious European credit crunch, Schroders says.

The government has said it will not issue CPI-linked gilts in 2012-13, saying the move would not be cost effective and would involve "a number of risks".

Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed the state pension age will reach 67 by 2026.