The Pensions Advisory Service and the Pensions Management Institute are to work together to provide information on personal accounts, PP can reveal.
Schroders warns of 25pc cut in exit prices; JPMorgan raises $1.6bn (£862m) to boost balance sheet; Eurozone teeters on brink of recession after output drops for the first time
The subject of much recent debate, the proposed Solvency II regime has the European pensions industry divided. Elizabeth Pfeuti reports
US - Saving in a defined benefit (DB) pension plan can deliver the same level of retirement income at almost half the cost of a defined contribution (DC) scheme, latest research reveals.
While hedge funds have taken a very visible battering in the credit crisis, not everything is doom and gloom for the controversial vehicles. Emma Oakman reports
Jenny Blinch talks to Hiroko Niwa, chief investment officer of the Mitsubishi Corporation Defined Benefit Pension Fund
Lynn Strongin Dodds explores the impact stricter regulation has had on back, middle and front office technology
Charlie Morris explores the evolving role of technology in pension fund portfolio management
While on the pensions side there is an almost universal move to defined contribution in Europe and the US, Christine Senior finds employee benefits packages continue to differ greatly
Like most asset classes, property has taken a hit in the credit crunch. However, experts predict a return to profitability in the not too distant future and pension funds are urged to bide their time. Elizabeth Pfeuti reports