Investment

The Pensions Regulator needs to focus its attention more on smaller schemes, delegates heard.

Increasing member awareness should go hand in hand with increasing scheme take up said one pension manager.

It is possible to run career average 1 / 120th schemes at a similar cost to what is on offer from NEST, delegates heard.

UK schemes should seriously consider outsourcing scheme governance structures and investment policies in a similar vein to the Dutch model, delegates heard.

Regulator guidance on enhanced transfer value exercises could force trustees and sponsoring employers to collude on offer terms to meet compliance standards, Mercer say.

US - The New York City Employees' Retirement System (NYCERS) has reached a settlement of its securities class action against Apple over claims of improper stock options backdating practices.

Social housing and infrastructure provides a long-term, inflation-linked investment opportunity with reliable returns, according to industry experts.

GLOBAL - Developed market managers have proven to be more skilful at picking securities than emerging markets managers, said Rick Di Mascio, chief executive at Inalytics.

UK - The final salary link in public service pensions is 'inherently unfair' and can lead to high flyers getting almost twice as much back in pensions than those on more modest earnings for the same amount of pension contributions, Lord John Hutton says....

Fiduciary management has recently hit the mainstream for UK pension funds. Laura Blows looks at how this market is developing