Mercer

With pensions deficits soaring among FTSE companies, Gill Wadsworth discusses the importance for trustees of making regular covenant assessments to ensure their sponsors can honour their funding commitments

Replicators were designed to produce cheap hedge fund beta. Emma Oakman finds out how they have fared through a difficult year

Some 130/30 funds have failed to live up to expectation and as investors begin to look elsewhere for sources of alpha is the writing on the wall? Giovanni Legorano investigates

Once the definition of good pensions practice, the Netherlands has been hit hard by the global economic downturn. However, there may be light at the end of the tunnel. as Andrew Sheen reports

The move towards mark-to-market accounting and a more short term outlook has long been a thorn in the side of the pensions industry, but what does it mean for the way damage inflicted by the current crisis is playing out in balance sheets? Giovanni Legorano...

THE Dairy Crest Group Pension Fund has purchased a £150m bulk annuity policy from Legal & General Assurance Society.

Previously considered an expensive but failsafe insurance solution, the financial security of pension fund buyouts is now being questioned as the world's financial markets lurch from crisis to crisis. Emma Oakman reports

ROSIE KWOK of MERCER examines The Pensions Regulator's consultation paper on good record-keeping.

Morrisons is to close it final salary scheme to new members in favour of a stakeholder run by HSBC.