Investment

Trustees of smaller defined benefit schemes are spending too much time debating manager selection and not enough time considering asset allocation, consultants say.

Henderson Global Investors has launched a defined contribution version of its diversified growth fund to grab a slice of the growing DC pension fund market.

NEST has today unveiled its investment strategy and published its first statement of investment principles.

LV= Asset Management has appointed Ian Harvey to the newly-created position of head of institutional development as it looks to build its presence in the institutional market.

The BBC has agreed an 11-year repayment plan with the scheme trustees to address its £1.1bn deficit.

John Belgrove looks at how asset managers have adapted their strategies to respond to the unpredictability of today's markets

Joo Hee Lee of Fidelity International looks at life cycle strategies

Aon Hewitt and Baillie Gifford have signed up to straight-through processing for defined contribution transactions through Calastone's SWIFT bureau service.

Buyout companies will move into alternative asset classes from 2013 because of changes to the way they hold capital under Solvency II, consultants say.

Short service member refunds should by default be transferred to another scheme facilitated by the ceding scheme, Legal & General says.