Investment

Liability-driven investment is "fundamentally misconceived" because it hedges low interest rates which in fact increase corporate profitability, a radical report finds.

The Pensions Trust has launched a defined contribution website for the administration of its Flexible Retirement Plan.

The Actuarial Profession has published a revised framework for use of discount rates in actuarial work following a two-year research and consultation project.

PPF chief executive Alan Rubenstein tells PP what schemes and trustees can do to cut levy payments under the new regime.

The tone of industry regulators is "aggressive and confrontational" rather than being collegiate with the industry, a lawyer says.

The Pensions Regulator has confirmed that addresses will remain under the category of common data and be subject to its stringent data targets.

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.