SEI

The use of liability driven investment strategies as a tool to move schemes towards buy-outs has fallen over the past year, SEI says.

Schemes are interested in fiduciary management but greater understanding is needed. Helen Morrissey looks at how schemes are engaging with this service.

Professional Pensions asks some of the leading providers in the fiduciary management space about this form of investment governance.

Trustees are ill-equipped to position their schemes to exploit current and future interest-rate movements, SEI has warned.

The overwhelming majority of the industry believes The Pensions Regulator should provide greater flexibility on how scheme liabilities are calculated according to research from SEI.

Painting and decorating supplier Brewers has appointed SEI as fiduciary manager to its two defined benefit schemes with combined assets of £108m.

Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at scheme choices

Controlling funding level volatility is the biggest concern for UK schemes in the coming year, according to research carried out by a fiduciary manager.

Institutional investor concern over hedge fund transparency is driving up risk management standards, leading the industry to become more "institutionalised", an SEI report finds.

Adviser group Paradigm is set to launch a standalone corporate wrap next week.