The Weekly Wrap: October 3 edition

A round-up of pensions and investment stories published across the FT Group – from annuity providers facing further pressure after George Osborne's 'death tax' announcement, to schemes calling for more diversified real asset funds for inflation protection. 

Plus the week in numbers:

• HSBC has transferred £1.8bn of pension assets to Fidelity
• bfinance found active managers have outperformed benchmarks by 0.3% a year 
• Partnership's shares have fallen 8% after pension death tax announcement 

Most read on pensions-expert.com

Budget flexibilities fail to spur DB transfer interest
With ALM gizmos, are we seeing the gamification of pensions data?
How scrapping 55% 'death tax' could affect your DB scheme
Five reasons to improve your scheme data quality
Nationwide builds inflation hedge, ups matching assets to derisk

And this week's social media comment looks at one scheme's reaction to a star fund managers leaving asset management firms. 

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