Investment

The government is set to engage with pension providers and trade bodies to develop feeder funds, corporate ISAs and platforms in a bid to encourage saving.

Tesco has slashed its scheme liabilities by £270m by switching from the Retail Prices Index to the Consumer Prices Index for calculating inflation linked benefits.

Sustainability criteria such as ESG criteria are too important to be ignored in investment decision making, research by Allianz Global Investors suggests.

Hedge funds have gates on about $60bn of investors' money, say fund brokers Tullett Prebon.

GlaxoSmithKline's £900m buy-in deal last year would not have been possible without transition managers, its director of pensions finance, investments and risk Martin Mannion says.

The government should overhaul its policy on infrastructure funding and provide incentives to encourage pension funds to invest in big projects, a report says.

Some seven out of ten employers are yet to begin preparations for employer duties despite them coming into play next year, latest research shows.

Pension Insurance Corporation co-head of business origination David Collinson talks us through the latest Pension Risk Transfer Index.

Fauchier Partners, the institutional fund of hedge funds owned by BNP Paribas, has said the tripling of a withdrawal period on one product allows it to invest in a wider range of underlying managers.

Brockton Capital has added Birmingham's The Mailbox retail complex to its portfolio for £127.1m.