defined benefit

JLT Employee Benefits (JLTEB) has launched an investment platform for defined benefit trustees.

Schemes fighting court cases are being forced to walk an investment "tightrope" in the Pension Protection Fund assessment period as they struggle to secure better than PPF-level benefits.

A rapid increase in late payments to company schemes could be a sign of an "impending wave of restructurings and insolvencies", Pinsent Masons says.

The majority of this week's respondents thought self-sufficiency was the long-term target for most defined benefit schemes. Although many pointed out that this was a protean term, more than half said it was what schemes were aiming for.

GAB Robins UK has entered a regulated apportionment arrangement with the Pension Protection Fund to eliminate its scheme liabilities.

Zurich has secured its first master trust client, with publisher Johnston Press signing up to the multi-employer auto-enrolment proposition.

The Pensions Regulator is investigating investment holding company Guinness Peat Group over its pension scheme responsibilities.

Less than 10% of staff auto-enrolled by The Co-operative have chosen to opt out of the scheme.

A Northern Ireland charity created to promote peace has gone into administration because of its spiralling defined benefit liability.

The Department for Work and Pensions' proposal to allow defined benefit schemes to self-certify may be unworkable, industry figures warn.