M&G

Schemes will remain locked into safe but unspectacular UK commercial property returns until the end of 2011 due to worsening global market conditions, a report concludes.

M&G Investments fund managers have started moving their portfolios away from investment grade towards high yield for the first time since 2009 due to extra yield prospects.

Prudential saw a first-half boost in sales thanks largely to a 20% jump in corporate pensions new business, but inflows at the group's investment business fell sharply.

Ben Jones examines whether long-term property leases can be used to hedge inflation risk.

This month includes panelists from L&G, BNP Paribas, M&G and Aviva Investors.

An increase in interest rates by the end of the year will creating opportunities for schemes in floating rate assets such as European loans, an asset manager says.

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

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.

Prudential boosted its corporate pensions sales by £78m in the first quarter, driven by a 154% increase in sales to new members of existing private sector clients.

PRUPIM has acquired a £67m Tesco superstore in Cardiff for the M&G Secured Property Income Fund.