Opinion

The Pensions Regulator felt it necessary to issue guidance on asset-backed funding structures and potential breaches of employer related investment rules this week.

SPC president Kevin LeGrand calls on the industry to be positive

Sebastian Cheek explains why the EU must tackle the issue of overly complicated pensions regulation

Lawrence Gosling asks if the latest departures will mark the end of the Gartmore name

This week a group of Local Government Pension Scheme members in the South West - worth a combined £9.9bn - announced proposals to establish a framework to share actuarial, benefit and investment services, to be split into three ‘lots'.

In 2001, Global Pensions set out to offer the European pension industry's first major awards. A decade later, it's great to see we've not only met our goal, but grown to provide the only truly global platform for pension funds to honour their providers....

David Stevenson asks if fund managers have got their asset allocation model right

Over the last ten years there has been little or no return on buying and holding shares in the US, UK, Western Europe or Japan.

The Arc de Triomphe - which honours those who fought and died for France in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars - includes a list of French victories engraved under the great arches of the monument.

The bonfire of the quangos could have resulted in the loss of an important industry institution, The Pensions Advisory Service.