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THE Royal County of Berkshire Pension Fund has appointed Nick Greenwood as pension fund manager to succeed Jack Johnson who retired after 12 years in the role.

TRANSPARENCY on fund management engagement among fund management firms is increasing, latest Investment Management Association research reveals.

BARING Asset Management chief investment officer Michael Hughes will retire at the end of this year.

Commodities can offer pension funds "decent opportunities" to diversify portfolios and exploit inefficiencies in the market despite currently suffering from a negative roll yield.

Failure to tackle public sector pensions will leave the UK facing a funding crisis within the next 10 years, the author of a government report warns.

The deadline for written submissions for the Pension Scheme of the Year Awards is midday, July 20.

FTSE 100 schemes are being urged to review investment strategies to lock in asset increases now that they have an overall surplus of £4bn.

SELF-INVESTED personal pension providers are failing clients by not allowing them to make their own choices, an alternative asset investment firm claims.

Almost three-quarters of fund managers expect their emerging market securities to increase by the end of the year, a Standard & Poor's survey shows.

UK - Marked discrepancies in the longevity assumptions used to calculate pension scheme deficits for local government pension schemes have been revealed by research from BDO Stoy Hayward Investment Management.