M&G Investments

The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) has launched the issuance of ultra-long dated gilts lasting 55-years. Taha Lokhandwala asks who will be in the marketplace

M&G's real estate investment arm PRUPIM has completed the freehold purchase of Heathrow Terminal 5's Hilton hotel.

Here they are - the winners of the UK Pensions Awards 2012.

GLOBAL - Emerging economies would face a systemic crisis if foreign investors, who own one-third of EM local currency debt markets, begin to pull out their cash, fund managers have warned.

UK - M&G, the asset management arm of insurer Prudential, saw profits rise 39% in the first half of 2011 despite a sharp decline in inflows.

EUROPE - M&G Investments has closed its Real Estate Debt fund with €343m ($491m) of institutional investor commitments.

UK - The Institutional Investor Committee has confirmed the membership of its newly-formed Advisory Council.

Infrastructure is becoming increasingly popular with pension funds seeking long duration, reliable cash flow and inflation protection. Chris Panteli finds out more about the asset class

UK - Schemes will find opportunities in actively managed inflation-linked bonds next year due to the differential between RPI and CPI-linked bond yields, an asset manager claims.

US - A third round of quantitative easing in the US would lead to the collapse of the dollar, M&G's Jim Leaviss has warned.