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The Irish government has implemented a raft of contentious changes to its public sector pensions as it looks to reign in costs including raising the pension age and increasing contributions. Helen Morrissey talks to minister for public expenditure and...

Pension funds could soon have to bear the cost of a Europe-wide tax on equity, bonds, currency and derivative transactions, finds Lynn Strongin Dodds

Rodrigo Amaral finds the allure of the fast-growing emerging market and operational hurdles have led Brazilian pension funds to stick to their home-country bias

More and more pension funds are making their securities lending programmes work harder for them by expanding into emerging markets, as Helen Fowler reports

A new paper by Con Keating, head of research at Brighton Rock Group, called into question the validity of liability driven investing. But industry experts believe LDI, while not perfect, is one of the best solutions pension funds have. Iain Morse reports...

Timothy B. Barrett, Donald Pierce, James Perry and Arun Muralidhar look at the structure of dynamic beta management and its implications

Pension funds around the world will be preparing for a raft of legislation being implemented in the coming months.

The European Commission has bowed to UK pension industry demands for a longer consultation period on Solvency II requirements and extended the deadline by five weeks.

The Bank of England's decision to expand its quantitative easing programme by £75bn may well provide a much-needed boost to the UK economy.

Lawyer warns that Pensions Bill amendment may have unintended consequences for some schemes.