News

Tom Selby previews the March 11 edition of Professional Pensions.

An increasing move towards income drawdown could reduce the number of bonds needed in the future by half, AllianceBernstein says.

GLOBAL/EUROPE - The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) has criticised the Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM) directive for reducing European Union institutional investors' access to private equity investments.

GLOBAL - The perfect storm battering hedge funds, of looming regulation worldwide and political vilification in Europe, has not deterred aspiring managers from launching products, as start-ups outnumbered liquidations in the fourth quarter of last year....

GLOBAL - Total assets under management by sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) grew to US$3.5trn over the past year in the wake of a recovery in global equities markets, a report by Preqin revealed.

Raquel Pichardo-Allison speaks to Jonathan Boersma, executive director, Global Investment Performance Standards, at the CFA Institute.

More than two-thirds of contractors who take on outsourced local authority services are unaware of potentially crippling pensions costs at the end of their contract, Punter Southall research reveals.

The British Airways Pension Trustees have retained State Street Corporation to service its schemes worth £14bn.

CB Richard Ellis Investors has launched a UK direct property fund for defined contribution pension investors.

Costain has announced it has closed its defined benefit pension scheme to future accrual in a bid to reduce risk and volatility.