gilt yields

The amount of hedged defined benefit (DB) liabilities grew to £741bn by the end of 2015 according to KPMG.

Pension funds have traditionally had exposure to infrastructure through equity, but debt is increasingly being touted as an attractive route. Stephanie Baxter looks at whether it is suitable for schemes.

The yield on the benchmark 10 year gilt fell to a record low yesterday, dropping below 1.25% for the first time and bottoming at 1.22%.

Con Keating says there will be no solution to issues around pension funding unless we adopt a different approach.

The Kingfisher Pension Scheme has undergone a £230m medically underwritten buy-in with Legal & General (L&G) in a landmark deal for the bulk annuity market.

Total funding levels of defined benefit (DB) schemes in the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) 7800 have continued to fall against a backdrop of market volatility and falling gilt yields.

Bulk annuity business in 2016 will outstrip last year's levels despite a slow start due to the introduction of Solvency II, according to Willis Towers Watson.

Barbara Saunders takes a look at how schemes should deal with a recent widening of the gilt/swap spread.

There would be little to gain from Britain leaving the EU, according to a paper from BlackRock Investment Institute (BII).

Interest rate and inflation hedging levels rose during the last quarter of 2015 according to BMO Global Asset Management's Liability Driven Investment (LDI) survey.