Inflation

The Pensions Trust talks to Natasha Browne about how it hammered out an attractively priced inflation-linked fund for its DB scheme

David Adkins talks about the fund that won the DB Innovation prize at the Pension Scheme of the Year awards

UK CPI inflation has fallen to its lowest level in five years, undershooting estimates as the impact of falling petrol prices dragged the headline level down near to 1%.

The main economic risk to pension schemes is a spike in inflation, according to Barnett Waddingham.

Two members of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee voted for a 25bps rate hike this month, latest minutes show - the first call for hikes in over three years.

Consumer price inflation tumbled to 1.6% in July 2014, down from 1.9% in June 2014, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveals.

A new measure of inflation developed by the Office of National Statistics has had its official status downgraded a little over a year after it was first proposed.

If all the FTSE100 companies still using the RPI inflation measure in their pension schemes were to move to using RPIJ, the combined pension deficit could fall by up to £20bn, LCP says.

UK Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation fell in the year to May, after the previous month saw its first climb in 10 months.

The rate of UK CPI inflation rose in the year to April, the first increase in ten months, according to the Office for National Statistics.