Europe

The sovereign debt crisis has left many investors feeling emerging markets are a better bet than Europe. Chris Panteli discovers why some fund managers believe this is no longer the case

A new IMF paper triggered by some European countries' response to pension policy calls for new fiscal indicators that give more weight to the long-term cost of pensions. Raquel Pichardo-Allison reports

In the first of a three-part series on the sustainability of pensions in the UK, Con Keating, head of research at Brighton Rock Group, looks at the numbers behind the assumption that DB is no longer affordable

UK - Switching pension uprating to Consumer Prices Index is the biggest "raid" on pensions since the change to scheme corporation tax arrangements in 1997, a trade union says.

GLOBAL - Have you missed the biggest stories in pensions this week? Find out below, as we list the top 10 most popular stories on www.globalpensions.com over the past seven days.

UK - Maintaining data integrity must be a key priority for pensions administrators and trustees in the next two years, Aon Hewitt warns.

UK - We ask the UK industry its views on the coalition's performance on pensions a year after it came to power.

EUROPE - Europe's regulatory focus has shifted from market efficiency to investor protection, according to a report from State Street assessing the impact of new rules on competition and investment performance.

EUROPE - Institutional investors with concerns about rising interest rates should consider Europe's leveraged loan market, M&G Investments believes.

European investor confidence into riskier assets is increasing - bucking a global trend of reduced risk appetite from institutional investors, State Street research shows.