Managers of pension scheme money are beginning to short gilts, on the assumption the market has peaked.

The European financial regulator will recommend a variable version of Solvency II (S2) imminently, PW understands.

Alistair Darling has defended his record as chancellor and pensions minister, following Lord Hutton’s admission the previous government didn’t go far enough on pensions.

The government has been accused of treating certain local government pension scheme (LGPS) contributors as “poor relations” in its latest consultation

The European Central Bank (ECB) is pushing products containing  potentially toxic unsecured mortgage debt onto UK pension schemes.

More than a third of the UK’s largest employers will use the forthcoming  high earner tax changes to close their remaining defined benefit (DB) schemes.

The vast majority of schemes are not hedging even half their assets against inflation, despite most being concerned enough about liability-matching to have three-year buyout plans.

The pensions regulator is toying with naming and shaming schemes in wind up which are not going at the process quickly enough.

Whitbread is creating a bespoke diversified growth fund for its defined contribution (DC) scheme, replicating the growth component of its defined benefit (DB) portfolio.