Investment

Defined contribution investors need to look at their portfolios from a risk perspective akin to defined benefit schemes, delegates heard.

Standard Life has launched a master trust arrangement as an extension of its trust-based bundled defined contribution offering with Pitmans Trustees as trustee.

TPR chief executive Bill Galvin tells PP what the industry needs to do ahead of the 2012 pension reforms.

Pension funds are facing a dilemma in that de-risking is expensive and not getting cheaper so they should take on more risk in the current climate, delegates heard.

Employers who provide information on lifetime allowance potential tax charges in light of auto-enrolment have nothing to fear from The Pensions Regulator, delegates heard.

Ensuring employers are fully prepared for auto-enrolment is not only a duty of The Pensions Regulator and government but falls on the shoulders of industry as well, delegates heard.

Financial secretary to the Treasury Mark Hoban has said the government will not allow European regulators to overrule it on pensions.

Schroders is aiming to make active management more available to defined contribution investors by adapting a performance-related fee structure for one of its long-running global equity funds.

Eurozone indices sold off sharply in early trading as fears over a break-up of the region swept across markets once again.

EUROPE - Eurozone indices sold off sharply in early trading as fears over a break-up of the region swept across markets once again.