Investment

State Street has been appointed by F&C Asset Management to provide investment manager operations outsourcing for £106bn in assets.

The government has hinted it will change rules around short service refunds after warning companies not to assume such refunds will continue in their current form.

Public sector workers' resistance to pension reforms stems from a misunderstanding about how the changes will affect them, Hymans Robertson research reveals.

Vanguard has launched the LifeStrategy range, a suite of five fund of index funds with low annual management charges.

Government has launched an urgent review of equity investments after business secretary Vince Cable warned short-termism was risking the financial security of pension scheme members.

Ole Beier Sørensen discusses the nationwide effort needed to encourage low-carbon investing

Andrew Short questions whether the web alone is sufficient to reach an apathetic population and how social media can help boost member engagement.

UK institutional investors are still trailing other European countries, particularly France and the Nordics when it comes to sustainable investment, a leading proponent warns.

An increase in interest rates by the end of the year will creating opportunities for schemes in floating rate assets such as European loans, an asset manager says.

The Work and Pensions Select Committee has postponed its inquiry into EU pension reforms until the autumn to give European officials time to publish its proposals.