UK schemes have lost as much as £500m by buying into corporate bonds just as returns turned downwards, Hewitt Associates claims.
The consultancy firm said net investment into corporate bonds by pension funds amounted to over £15bn in the first half of the year – up by more than 50pc on the total for the whole of 2006. It ...
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