F&C

Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at the causes of the current rise in inflation and asks how long it might be expected to continue and what trustees can do to protect their funds from the extra liability.

Pension schemes took a step back from inflation hedging measures in the last quarter of 2009, figures from the latest F&C Liability Driven Investments survey show.

KOREA - Institutional investors with a combined US$2.5trn in assets under management have written Korea's Ministry of Justice asking it to refrain from introducing anti-takeover measures known as poison pills into its Commercial Code.

UK/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Fund managers have sought to downplay the potential fallout from the Dubai debt crisis on both their holdings and the global economic recovery.

Closing a defined benefits scheme to future accrual is a simple way of derisking, but as Gill Wadsworth points out, it is far from a problem-free solution and not the only option worth considering

UK - Schemes hedged liabilities of more than £11.4bn (US$18.6bn) during the third quarter of the year, analysis from F&C revealed.

Schemes hedged liabilities of more than £11.4bn during the third quarter of the year, analysis from F&C reveals.

Gill Wadsworth reports on how trustees are dealing with the continuing funding crisis

Sebastian Cheek discusses financial institutions' changing attitudes to socially responsible investing