Global equities

Investors in Europe will be offered access to three responsible fund strategies for the first time say Nuveen Investments and TIAA-CREF.

We have seen major volatility in world stock markets in recent weeks. Karen Heaven highlights the key questions schemes need to ask.

The £900bn deficit in UK defined benefit (DB) schemes would require more than a year's salary from every person in the UK to fix, according to Hymans Robertson.

Stephanie Flanders sets out the three key themes for investors

Pension schemes are likely to raise their exposure to equities in the next three years as they chase returns in the face of low bond yields, according to research.

Towers Watson has urged dynamic investors to take a short-term neutral position on UK and US bond rates after previously recommending a moderately underweight position.

Just one in eight European pension schemes plan to increase passive investment over the next three years while half will put more capital into active, according to a survey.

Equity markets began to share the pain of a sharp sell-off in European sovereign debt yesterday, with the FTSE 100 dropping 1.7% in early trading and bond yields spiking once more.

Eighteen years' ago today, Jon Exley, Shyam Mehta and Andrew Smith published what has been described as the most important and influential paper ever written on defined benefit (DB) pensions - The financial theory of defined benefit pension schemes. Take...

PP looks at research finding managers are charging higher fees than ever