Inflation

With the Bank of England pessimistic about long-term inflation targets, Charlotte Moore considers scheme strategies for mitigating this unrewarded risk

Henry Boot shaved £10m to £12m off its pension liabilities last year through an enhanced transfer value exercise and switching to RPI indexation, results show.

UK pension buyouts rise; UK pension schemes prepare for inflation; We can move fast, but not all the time

Professional Pensions assembled a panel of three industry experts to talk about inflation risk, how it would affect schemes and what funds can do to address this.

Final salary members could see 4% slashed from their benefits after the Bank of England used miscalculated inflation rates for more than a decade, experts say.

Jonathan Stapleton on the consequences of inflation

Increases in VAT, fuel duty and the price of crude oil contributed to a surge in inflation in January, latest official figures reveal.

UK - The UK inflation rate rose to 4% in January, which is double the government's target and up from 3.7% the previous month.

Global inflation will erode defined benefit deficits substantially but savers will have to accept they will be far worse off, Lindsay Tomlinson warns.

Interest rate hedging increased 44% in the last three months of last year, driven by pension schemes rushing to capitalise on attractive market swap levels, a survey suggests.