Towers Watson

GLOBAL - Scheme allocations to alternative assets have increased almost three-fold over the past 10 years, Towers Watson research has revealed.

Helen Fowler looks at the developing innovation of the ‘captive model' - where a pension fund sponsor uses its own in-house insurer to cover its benefit obligations

GLOBAL - Multi-national companies have started to look at using in-house insurers to tackle their funding issues. Helen Fowler reports

Sponsors have been looking at using in-house insurers to tackle their funding issues. Helen Fowler asks if this is the most effective way

Dutch pension experts ask whether trustees have shed too much responsibility, as Giovanni Legorano reports

When hotel and restaurant business Whitbread decided to review its choice of investment funds for its DC scheme members, a diversified investment approach within one growth fund was found to be best. Laura Blows reports

Millions of people are basing their retirement planning on their occupational defined contribution pension scheme.

Reducing the annual allowance to as little £30,000 could affect thousands of additional pension savers, consultants and advisers say.

Yesterday, the government said it would work with the industry on "alternative ways" to implement pension tax relief restrictions - and would consider reducing the annual allowance to between £30,000 and £45,000 instead.

Mark Dowsey and Dave Roberts of Towers Watson consider the forthcoming EC Green Paper on pensions