Mercer

Pension funds will continue to shift away from equities to bonds as a result of the latest changes to International Accounting Standards, Mercer says.

US - S&P 1500 defined benefit pension deficits fell by just $8bn last year, despite employer contributions of $77bn and investment returns of $156bn, analysis by Mercer shows.

GLOBAL - Pension funds and other asset owners are increasingly looking for asset managers to incorporate climate change policies into their investment practices, a new survey of investors with some $12trn in assets shows.

As funds seek to steer their portfolios through the markets' bumpy recovery, Andrew Short looks at two important alternative classes - hedge funds and infrastructure

US - The aggregate deficit in pension plans sponsored by S&P 1500 companies increased by $37bn during May, figures from Mercer show.

BlackRock has sharpened its focus on the defined contribution market with the appointment of a head of pensions administration services to develop its DC administration proposition.

Emerging market debt funds saw outflows in the start of the year but concerns over the strength of the developed world pulled investors back, as Lynn Strongin Dodds reports

A quarter of the Global Pensions 100 panel members plan to implement a new allocation to infrastructure or increase an existing one.

GLOBAL - Here it is. Global Pensions' summary of what changes to accounting standard IAS19 could mean for both sponsoring employers and pension schemes.

Here it is. Professional Pensions' summary of what changes to accounting standard IAS19 will mean for both sponsoring employers and pension schemes.