Towers Watson

Towers Watson has downgraded global ten to 15-year government bonds to "highly unattractive" - warning premiums can no longer compensate pension schemes for taking duration risk.

Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at scheme choices

Jonathan Stapleton on coping in a crisis

Here it is. A table showing how private sector membership in occupational pension schemes has fallen over the past 15 years.

Towers Watson has appointed Nico Aspinall to lead its UK defined contribution investment business.

The Jaguar Pension Plan has awarded the delegated consulting mandate for its £2bn fund to Towers Watson.

Asset managers, lobby groups, consultants and law firms have reacted warily to the publication of EIOPA advice on Solvency II standards for pension schemes. Here's what they had to say

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority has published its advice to the European Commission on plans to harmonise regulation and introduce stringent solvency requirements for pension schemes.

UK pension fund assets have grown by 8% a year over the last decade and at $2.4trn (£1.5trn) are now worth more than country's gross domestic product, research finds.

Yesterday, the Department for Work and Pensions published the revised timetable of staging dates for auto-enrolment. PP rounds up industry reaction and looks at how the changes will help larger as well as smaller employees.