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The combined deficit of the top 100 UK firms' defined benefit schemes has improved by £17bn over the last year, Pension Capital Strategies says.

The recent falls in the stock market have led to declines in income for DC scheme members. Sebastian Cheek looks at how investors can hedge against future falls

Public sector pension costs and liabilities are under intense scrutiny once again as the government gears up for its emergency Budget on June 22.

SEBASTIAN CHEEK looks at the merits of using non market-capitalisation based indices for passive equity allocations and assesses if this is the best way to deal with concentration risk

Relying on market-implied figures for scheme inflation assumptions is a very poor way of estimating long-term risk factors, Hewitt Associates warns.

As I mentioned in last week's leader - (Oil spill highlights need for alternatives, PP, June 10) - the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster may not only be catastrophic for the environment.

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster may not only be catastrophic for the environment.

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster may not only be catastrophic for the environment.

The aggregate deficit of FTSE350 companies stood at £160bn at the end of Q1 despite positive asset returns, Mercer figures say.

CENTRAL/EASTERN EUROPE - Institutional investor appetite for Central and Eastern European stocks had returned in the second half of 2009 after a loss of appetite during the financial crisis, according to a study, but the verdict is still out for 2010....