Governance

GLOBAL - Institutional investors should search existing and new market opportunities to build more diversified portfolios, Towers Watson said.

Sebastian Cheek reports on a lack of members' financial awareness necessitating good governance for DC schemes

Vivien Cockerill looks at the issues faced by trustees and their advisers in light of the Walker Report and the revised Corporate Governance Code, the extent to which these issues will affect them and how they should respond

Sponsors of UK defined benefit schemes have made more progress in reducing risk than their counterparts in the US and Canada, a consultant says.

The £1.3bn Suffolk County Council pension fund has appointed PIRC to provide research and voting recommendations on its global portfolio.

Sebastian Cheek speaks to Volkswagen Group pensions manager Roy Platten about how the scheme's communications strategy helped it acquire the NAPF Pension Quality Mark

Tom Selby says the UK will have a governance crisis unless defined contribution schemes up their game

John Dickson of Hymans Robertson explains how schemes can take advantage of medium-term anomalies in order to boost returns

Implemented consulting involves trustees partially delegating fund decisions to a third party. While it has become a hot topic, Christine Senior says schemes need to give it careful thought

Richard Lowe discusses the sustainability and appropriateness of defined contribution as a suitable replacement for defined benefit