Investment

PIMCO has soft-launched its Select UK Income Bond fund with its largest allocation to asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities.

US - California and local governments should freeze pension payments for current workers and convert final salary schemes to a hybrid design, a new report concludes.

HSBC Workplace Retirement Services has linked up with corporate adviser Towergate Financial to provide group personal pensions tailored to small and medium sized businesses.

US - The lack of clear information on investment strategies used by target date funds could put retirees at risk, research warns.

On the eve of an explosion of corporate wrap products, Sebastian Cheek looks how they are set to shake-up pension saving

Employee benefit consultants are finding it difficult to recommend the National Employment Savings Trust to clients because of its lack of track record.

A host of pension funds have poured more than £100m into Legal & General Property's Limited Price Inflation Income Property Fund.

European equities are trading at their biggest discount rate to US stocks since the early 1990s, challenging investor sentiment favouring US over euro stocks, BNP Paribas analysts say.

Inflows into fixed income will slow this year as fears over duration risk drive investors into other asset classes, rating agency Fitch says.

Michael Bow examines how ideas from defined benefit will continue in DC strategies