Current accounting rules are misleading shareholders and investment analysts about the true value of company pension schemes, the Cass Business School Pensions Institute says.
Employers continue to face uncertainty over tax levies on employee assistance programmes, Aon Consulting says.
US - Pension funds in the US and other institutional investors are losing billions by changing investment managers at the wrong time, research from Boston University has shown.
The Actuarial Profession is "committed" to implementing self-regulation recommendations but is failing in upholding ethical standards, a new report says.
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The requirement for trustees to undertake covenants assessments at regular intervals has been the gre...
US - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has invested a further $350m (€239m) to its emerging managers programme through direct and fund of fund allocations.
NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension funds received income of €19.6bn from their marketable investments in the first three quarters of 2007, according to De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB).
PROMINENT fund manager and leading proponent of corporate governance Alastair Ross Goobey has died aged 62.
THE International Organisation of Pension Supervisors (IOPS) has released a set of guidelines relating to the risk management of alternative investments by pension funds.