Investment

EUROPE/US - Saguenay Capital and Strathmore Capital have merged to create Saguenay Strathmore Capital.

Saguenay Capital and Strathmore Capital have merged to create Saguenay Strathmore Capital.

Pensions minister Steve Webb is to meet with industry figures today to try to "root bad practice out" of enhanced transfer value exercises.

Scrapping contracting-out for defined contribution schemes will drain more than £50bn from the pensions industry leading to a "significant" reduction for administrators and fund managers, government says.

AUSTRALIA - The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) have released a report concluding raising the mandatory contribution rate to 12% from 9% would result in stronger retirement adequacy than would proposals to reform the country's...

UK - Imminent changes to accounting standard IAS19 could dent UK company profits by as much as £10bn ($16bn), KPMG warns.

Jonathan Stapleton looks at KPMG's 2011 Pensions Accounting Survey and discovers it paints a much rosier picture for UK schemes.

Charlotte Moore canvasses opinion on diversified growth funds and other ways of adding alpha

AMNTco-chairman Barry Parr shares his views

The Pensions Regulator is to investigate how Silentnight's pension obligations were jettisoned when private equity firm HIG acquired the company after calling in administrators.