Investment

NOW Pensions, the new scheme to be launched by Danish group ATP early next year, has vowed to bring "highly competitive" charges to the UK market.

Further quantiative easing by the Bank of England will only occur if the UK enters a double dip recession, Morgan Stanley says.

Greater Manchester Pension Fund is set to invest up to £500m in local investment opportunities to help boost the local economy and regenerate town centres in the North West.

Mayfair Capital has relaunched its income fund and rebranded its opportunity fund.

Nearly two-thirds of pension managers believe schemes are being overcharged for actuarial and other services.

Towers Watson has lost its UK head of defined contributing investment to Fulcrum Asset Management.

UK - Almost one in five pension schemes currently delegate investment decision making to a third-party provider, analysis shows.

Almost one-in-five pension schemes currently delegate investment decision making to a third-party provider, analysis shows.

Sponsors should treat pension schemes as a subsidiary of their business to tackle the mounting burden of closed defined benefit schemes, a report argues.

GLOBAL - The development of longevity as an asset class continues to grow as longevity risk becomes increasingly recognised, experts believe.