Bonds

How the T. Rowe Price Funds SICAV–Dynamic Global Bond Fund¹ may help during this challenging environment

Rob Price looks at how the downgrade of Électricité de France affects schemes

Corporate and Strategic fund

A number of pension schemes have been prompted to lock in gains with a move into bonds after the estimated deficit across FTSE 100 DB pension schemes improved by £36bn, over the 12 months ending 30 June last year, JLT Employment Benefits found.

GAM has suspended trading in its unconstrained and absolute return bond funds as a result of the high level of redemption requests following the suspension of manager Tim Haywood earlier this week.

Two-thirds of FTSE 100 DB schemes invest more than 50% of assets in bonds to tackle investment mismatching, according to JLT research. Victoria Ticha takes a closer look

CPI drops to 3%

Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) has invested £60.6m into a student accommodation project at the University of Essex.

Nikesh Patel discusses the perils of over diversification in scheme portfolios

Altaf Kassam looks at how schemes can make their growth portfolio work harder