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Professional Pensions Conjecture

Tories to accelerate plan to raise state retirement age; Footsie pensions face £26bn longevity gap

IRELAND - The average Irish managed pension fund returned 11.7% in the quarter ending September 30, but recent gains weren't enough to wipe out negative returns over the past year.

FTSE 100 companies are in danger of sleepwalking into reporting an unnecessary £26bn of pension liabilities in their accounts, Hewitt Associates warns.

With the party political conference season in full swing, Emma Dunkley, Giovanni Legorano and Tom Selby ask well-known industry figures what are the key reforms the next government should make, mistakes it should avoid, and whether there should be an...

Emma Dunkley reports from Global Pensions' annual Transition Management Forum held on September 9, 2009 at Plaisterers' Hall, London

Giovanni Legorano looks at how pension funds' approach to portable alpha has had to evolve

The latest Professional Pensions Conjecture debate - to be held on September 29 -will look at the key issues surrounding delegated consulting.

Hewitt Associates has hired Chris DeMarco to its UK investment consulting team as a senior consultant.

Although the buyout market is showing signs of recovery, Sebastian Cheek explains that its expense still forces many DB schemes to seek alternative ways of removing risk from their balance sheets