Avon Pension Fund has awarded a £165m emerging markets (EM) mandate to Unigestion.
Buzz respondents expect equity investments to continue to perform well for schemes in 2014.
Developed market equities, gilts and bonds are overvalued, a growing proportion of investors and analysts believe.
Natasha Browne asks: are frontier markets just emerging markets with a new label?
Natasha Browne explores how emerging markets’ rapid growth is tapering off
Charlotte Moore looks at the forces at work on the American currency
The Superannuation Arrangements of the University of London (SAUL) has hired Payden & Rygel (P&R) to run its £80m absolute return bond mandate as it continues to diversify away from equities.
Taha Lokhandwala looks at the far-reaching influence of the US central bank
Five years after Lehman Brothers collapsed, Rachel Dalton looks at how scheme investment has advanced
Africa shouldn't be written off as an economic backwater, says Pádraig Floyd