Greater Manchester Pension Fund has agreed to increase its new commitments to private equity funds by 25% every year to reach its strategic allocation benchmark.

The government has unveiled plans to underwrite infrastructure investment to help get stalling projects off the ground.

Employers are being too optimistic about the time it takes to prepare for auto-enrolment, with nearly one-third of firms hoping to prepare in less than three months, official research shows.

Self-administered trusts used for non-academic university staff are using a 45 basis point spread on discount rate assumptions for different schemes, potentially adding millions to liabilities.

Mergers and acquisitions sit at the aggressive end of the financial jungle: the sums are larger, the strategies rougher, the payoffs higher.

Total defined benefit liabilities for UK schemes deflated to £267bn last month after May's record high of £312bn, according to Pension Protection Fund data.

Friends Life has launched an in-house asset management business to manage the firm's fixed income assets.

Companies bidding to buy firms in future will have to reveal what their plans are for the pension scheme, under proposals from the Takeover Panel.

Schemes using liability-driven investment strategies could have misjudged their swap contract costs for more than four years due to the LIBOR manipulation scandal.

A merger of 34 London borough pension funds into a multi-billion pound superfund is unlikely to happen until 2016 at the earliest, the head of London's largest scheme says.