Latest articles from Ian Smith

Tricky pickings for funds seeking bond returns

Data analysis: UK pension funds drove more cash into domestic and overseas corporate bonds last year in order to benefit from repairing economies and to diversify sources of yield.

M&S sizes up auto-escalation to improve outcomes

CBI conference 2014: Marks and Spencer is considering what auto-escalation could do to improve member outcomes as it looks to raise the quality of its provision following auto-enrolment.

Editorial: Time to cash out?

In or out...

The strengthening equity market, mixed with higher gilt yields, is giving pension scheme investors a tough decision on whether and when to derisk.

Riding out the taper: how the Fed’s policies affect your scheme

Yields are rising as central banks look to extricate themselves from the markets, but 2014 may not be that simple.

Editorial: Picking a fight

Webb, the lion tamer...

Who’d be pensions minister?

Pensions Expert: Informing scheme decisions

Introducing Pensions Expert

Video: Editor Ian Smith explains how Pensions Expert has been launched to meet the information needs of UK pension schemes, and will continue to publish daily online, weekly in print and on iPad (1:15).

Where scheme investors went for growth in 2013

Year in review: Schemes took a number of different steps to work their growth assets harder during the past 12 months, with property being a particular area of interest for investors.

Top five stories from Pensions Week past

As Pensions Week draws to a close – prior to its January relaunch as Pensions Expert – we take a look at some of the best stories and initiatives published over the past few years.

Editorial: Evolution not revolution

Well, that was it – the last print edition of Pensions Week. Don't worry, we'll be back in print every week from January 13 in our new guise, and you'll have heard plenty about that by now.

Improved funding levels set off derisking triggers

Derisking triggers

Four in 10 schemes hit derisking triggers in the year to September as funding levels recovered and institutional investors looked to take risk off the table.