Investment

Legal & General has launched the WorkSave Choice platform and the WorkSave Pension Trust to help companies cope with auto-enrolment.

Pension funds could be ditching responsible investing principles in their relentless hunt to get higher returns from their asset managers, Kas Bank warns.

JAPAN - The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the largest public pension fund in the world, returned 1.53% on its investments in the second quarter of fiscal 2010.

DENMARK - The Danish Financial Supervisory Authority plans to release mortality benchmarks in the coming days which will be used to help calculate pension liabilities.

The trustee of the £80m Scapa Group retirement benefit schemes has appointed Mercer to provide implemented investment services to address funding volatility.

The Pensions Regulator is expected to argue in the High Court today that a liability that flows from a financial support direction should be treated as an administration expense.

Start-up investment manager Carduus Capital has become the latest hedge fund investor to offer to refund part of its fees if it does not perform as institutional clients expect.

Group personal pensions give poor member outcomes, are difficult to modify and are a "real scandal", The Pensions Trust warns.

The Pensions Regulator has appointed more than 600 independent trustees to troubled pension schemes over the past two years.

The success of the UK stewardship code is vital in preventing more onerous regulation of shareholders, delegates heard.