Investment

UK - Pension trustee boards continue to struggle to make swift changes in allocations to new asset classes, research by Aon Hewitt shows.

Favourable market conditions mean buyout prices are at their most reasonable since before the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, Pension Insurance Corporation says.

The National Employment Savings Trust has appointed F&C Asset Management and HSBC Global Asset Management to manage its ethical and Sharia funds, respectively, it announced today.

B&CE has overhauled its EasyBuild Workplace Pension offering to offer a 0% annual management charge for the first year of auto-enrolment.

Barnet Council pension scheme is set to liquidate its £23m real estate portfolio after integrating the fund's property strategy into a diversified growth fund.

CANADA - The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan added C$13.3bn ($13.9bn) in investment income in 2010, the highest in its history, but continues to face severe funding woes.

Trustees must get to grips with scheme pays requirements and quickly identify administration changes needed to run the new annual allowance regime, Punter Southall says.

A new DC plan meant to cover the self-employed and those at small companies could eat away profits of other DC managers, as Jay Cooper reports

The unprecedented run of earthquakes, cyclones and floods which has caused billions of dollars of damage to Japan, Australia and New Zealand in recent months has put catastrophe bond funds in the spotlight. Katie Holliday reports

Park Square Capital has raised €850m (£742m), primarily from institutional investors including pension funds, for its mezzanine fund PSC Fund II, the firm says