How schemes can take advantage of rising interest rates

Charlotte Moore investigates what schemes can do if rates start to rise

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UK pension schemes can breathe a sigh of relief. There are encouraging signs that the period of very low interest rates will be coming to end, bringing to a close one of the most difficult periods in the history of defined benefit pensions.

The recent recovery in the US economy increases the chance that quantitative easing will soon be tapered. There is also a more muted improvement in the UK's growth prospects. The fixed income marke...

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