Investment

Heineken has closed its defined benefit scheme to future accrual and replaced it with a defined contribution arrangement.

The government has announced public sector pension negotiations will continue on ‘scheme by scheme' basis in the future.

Replacing tax relief on pensions with a matched savings scheme and setting up a "no-lose lottery" could help plug Britain's savings gap, a think tank says.

Towers Watson has raked in $50bn (£31bn) in global assets under advisement through its implemented investment services business, the firm's fiduciary management offering.

UK - MPs are set to undergo the same pensions reform as the wider public sector and have a new scheme imposed on them by 2015, it was announced yesterday.

The Pensions Ombudsman's team of legal investigators has been understaffed by a third over the last year due to government restrictions on recruitment.

Tom Higgins, global macroeconomic strategist at Standish Mellon Asset Management believes time is running out for Eurozone governments trying to tackle the economic crisis.

The Association of Member Nominated Trustees is set to launch an investigation into how smaller schemes can team up to pool assets in a bid to drive down investment management fees.

Many within the industry want the government to hold fire on proposals forcing schemes to make adjustments to benefits to compensate for the effects of unequal GMPs - what's your view?

The Pensions Regulator should be given responsibility for policing enhanced transfer value exercises to allay political concerns on the issue, a lawyer says.