Investment

Publisher Emap has completed the wind-up of its 6,000 member Flexiplan defined contribution pension scheme with a £140m buyout.

The DMO should issue CPI-linked gilts on shorter durations of ten to 20 years to match schemes' shorter-dated CPI-linked liabilities, two of the industry's biggest bodies say.

Institutional investors with over $20trn (£12.7bn) in assets are urging global policy makers to create policies that encourage private sector investment in climate change solutions.

Lord Hutton admitted the Labour administration's pension reform package did not go far enough and may have "made matters worse".

Outgoing National Association of Pension Funds chairman Lindsay Tomlinson has urged schemes to demand more from the organisation and band together to lobby government more effectively.

NAPF chairman Lindsay Tomlinson explains why quantitative easing is so bad for UK pension schemes...

The National Association of Pension Funds has called on The Pensions Regulator to consider a range of options to help pension funds struggling to deal with the impact of quantitative easing.

US - The asset management fees brought in by State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) were up 17% in the year ended 30 September, despite overall assets under management dropping by 4% in the same period, parent company State Street Corp. said today.

Professional Pensions is set to conduct a survey on auto-enrolment to discuss the current level of knowledge and preparation in the marketplace.

CANADA - CPP Investment Board (CPPIB) and Oxford Properties, the real estate arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, have teamed up to build the Royal Bank of Canada's new Toronto headquarters.