EU

Andrew Short examines the choices and decisions facing smaller schemes that wish to use pooled LDI funds.

The European Commission will move to give shareholders a binding vote on pay, according to Commissioner Michel Barnier.

A European Parliament committee has voted to exclude pension funds from the Europe-wide financial transaction tax.

Institutional investors have urged EU finance ministers to revise the emission trading scheme to combat the "exceptionally low" price of carbon.

Hannah Brenton on hazy stewardship boundaries

Plans to exempt UK employers from having to auto-enrol staff working in Europe have won the backing of the National Association of Pension Funds.

John Redwood reaches for the asprin

Failure to reform EU regulations for UK pension schemes will lead to "inter-generational conflict" over pension provision in future, delegates heard.

Pension schemes' accrued liabilities could have different rules from more stringent Solvency II-style capital requirements, a leading EU policy maker has hinted.

This month the legal panel considers scope for challenging the DWP on GMP equalisation and discusses the effect of the government's approach on liabilities and admin costs