Asset Allocation

UK defined benefit liabilities have stabilised for the fourth month in a row, according to a Xafinity Corporate Solutions model.

The Daily Mail and General Trust pension scheme is setting up its first in-house de-risking group - the Triggered Asset Switch Committee - in a bid to make speedier investment decisions and improve its funding ratio.

Equity allocations by UK schemes have dropped from 47% to 43%, with a further four in ten schemes intending to reduce their deomstic exposure more next year, Mercer research suggests.

Schemes are abandoning passive trackers in favour of multi-asset and target date funds, DCisions research claims.

Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at scheme choices

Scheme bond allocations will hit 70% within five years as investors seek a "safe path" away from equity volatility to more stable assets, JLT Pension Capital Strategies predicts.

UK pension scheme assets under fiduciary management have reached £40bn, a study of the burgeoning industry reveals.

GLOBAL - Pension fund assets accounted for almost $30trn of investment manager assets worldwide in 2010, research by TheCityUK shows.

UK pension funds had $2.9trn (£1.9trn) of assets under management at the end of last year, a survey finds.

US - AQR Capital Management has launched a $100,000 annual award competition for academic papers that have the most significant practical implications for investors.