Mercer

Taha Lokhandwala looks at how investment strategies could change under AE

Scheme deficits increased significantly in January according to the latest funding survey, compounding mixed messages on the state of defined benefit funds during a month of stock market gains.

Employers who have reached their staging date or are preparing to go live in the coming months may be hit by the proposed simplification of auto-enrolment rules, industry figures have warned.

The aggregate deficit of UK private sector schemes has decreased by £33.5bn over January, research from the Pension Protection Fund shows.

Mercer's former UK chief executive Alan Whalley has been appointed chairman of Wealth at Work it has been announced.

Almost two-thirds of senior sponsor employees who are trustee-facing have no reporting line into the chair of trustees, Mercer research says.

Deficits at the UK's biggest schemes rose more than 20% in January despite big gains on the stock market, according to research from Mercer.

Payden & Rygel has appointed Mark Stanley as portfolio director in its London office.

The SR Technics UK scheme has avoided entering the Pension Protection Fund after it was cut adrift of its sponsoring employer as part of a corporate restructuring.

Mercer has confirmed the appointment of Fiona Dunsire as its UK chief executive.