Investment

Sebastian Cheek examines the reasons behind the explosion of interest in DC property funds

Scheme sponsors are increasingly transferring property to insurance companies in risk reduction deals as insurers develop innovative ways of taking on scheme liabilities, experts say.

BT Pension Scheme is set to pour £100m into a custom-built carbon efficient tracker index fund developed by Legal & General Investment Management.

More than 90% of institutional investors now vote on shares they hold in UK companies due to increasing adherence to the UK Stewardship Code, a survey reveals.

The Department for Work and Pensions has issued non-regulatory guidance on offering a default fund for auto-enrolment defined contribution schemes.

Current lifestyle funds could lead to defined contribution scheme members losing as much as 20% of their pension pot at retirement, PwC says.

The open market option could be reformed "within the year" if government and industry get behind the process, the Pension Income Choice Association says.

Most workers will choose not to opt out of auto-enrolment when it comes into force from 2012, an Aviva report suggests.

Pensions minister Steve Webb's intervention on incentivised transfers out of defined benefit schemes is "dangerous and disingenuous", industry figures say.

Professional Pensions assembled a panel of three industry experts to talk about how insurance-based risk reduction deals can be implemented in practice.