Investment

EUROPE - EU rules on the establishment of cross border pensions must be simplified, Aon Hewitt believes.

Paul McGlone explains how attitudes to the financial monitoring of pensions are changing.

Dave Lowe of Zurich looks at how new technology can be a useful tool in improving communication with scheme members

Panellists analyse the preparations that are being made by National Employment Savings Trust (NEST), such as its commitment to ethical investment.

The alarm over funding position volatility since July could have been avoided if schemes measured liabilities based on inflation rather than gilt yields, an actuary believes.

Andrew Short talks to Robert Hart, benefits consultant at Bluefin about how the Institute of Directors' DC scheme was awarded the DC Quality Mark.

A dozen longevity swap deals are set to complete in the next 18 months after the £1.7bn ITV Pension Scheme deal reinvigorated the market, a consultant says.

The importance of properly identifying a scheme's statutory employer is critical and The Pensions Regulator's statement on the issue was not hard hitting enough, a lawyer says.

How DC schemes are coping with volatility

The Debt Management Office is considering launching index-linked gilts with a maturity of 50 years in October after the idea of a new batch of ultra-long bonds was proposed to investors.