Opinion

As I mentioned in last week's leader - (Oil spill highlights need for alternatives, PP, June 10) - the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster may not only be catastrophic for the environment.

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster may not only be catastrophic for the environment.

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster may not only be catastrophic for the environment.

Why Obama is wrong to hammer BP

According to David Stevenson - a Financial Times journalist, a columnist for PP sister title Investment Week and one of the keynote speakers at the Professional Pensions Investment Conference last week - there are six things that should dominate the thinking...

Are you getting excited? Four years we’ve been waiting and it’s nearly here? The World Cup of course, what did you think I meant?

Who knew that BP stood not just for British Petroleum but also for British Pensions?

As anyone who has been unfortunate enough to have lunch with me will testify, my long-term pet hate has been the fact private sector pension funds have to account for and fund future liabilities now, while the government conveniently dodges these rules...

Accounting surveys by KPMG and Hymans Robertson - both published last week - found increases in inflation assumptions have increased markedly but are still failing to keep pace with market assumptions.

Pension fund managers could have been forgiven for feeling like the worst had passed when the industry emerged from 2009, though it appears the glow of recovery was merely a reprieve.