Fixed income

The Debt Management Office has "no plans" to introduce CPI-linked gilts to help schemes hedge inflation, PP can reveal.

UK - BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, probably won't buy U.K. inflation-linked bonds at today's sale amid "confusion" about the government's planned changes to pension indexing.

UK - Today's auction of inflation-linked British bonds garnered the lowest demand since October 2008 as analysts said the government's planned changes to pension indexing created uncertainty for fund managers.

UK - Government plans to switch inflation-linked uplifts for final salary pension schemes from the retail price index (RPI) to the consumer price index (CPI) have had an instant and negative effect on the UK index-linked gilt market, Aegon Asset Management...

Pension funds are continuing to diversify into riskier assets, with interest in private markets likely to increase in the short to mid-term, bfinance says.

EUROPE - Pension funds are continuing to diversify into riskier assets, with interest in private markets likely to increase in the short to mid-term, bfinance said.

Institutional investors should search existing and new market opportunities to build more diversified portfolios, Towers Watson says.

GLOBAL - Institutional investors should search existing and new market opportunities to build more diversified portfolios, Towers Watson said.

Helen Morrissey speaks to Roger Gray, chief investment officer of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), about how the scheme's investment approach is evolving

With many managers looking to the corporate bond market as a source of income, Sebastian Cheek asks if credit has become the new equity?