JLT Benefit Solutions

The Actuarial Profession has suggested scheme actuaries be barred from advising companies on funding but stopped short of proposing an outright ban on actuaries working for both trustee and sponsor.

JLT Investment Consulting has established a Scottish operation with the launch of an investment consulting team in Edinburgh.

GLOBAL - JLT Investment Solutions, New Mexico Public Employees Retirement Association Board, AXA Investment Managers, BlackRock, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois, F&C Investments, RPMI, Oddo Asset Management

JLT Employee Benefits has confirmed the appointment of Peter Ball as managing director of the recently formed JLT Investment Solutions.

Defined contribution investment strategies must focus more on member outcomes and less on turning savers into investment experts to succeed during auto-enrolment, consultants say.

UK - The £1.5bn ($2.3bn) Dorset County Pension Fund has appointed JLT Investment Consulting to help it select a new bond manager.

Large firms still have time to start auto-enrolment preparation but it must begin before Christmas, delegates heard.

UK - Any gains schemes might have made following the switch to the Consumer Price Index have been wiped out by falling interest rates, JLT Benefit Solutions believes.

Any gains schemes might have made following the switch to the Consumer Prices Index have been wiped out by falling interest rates, JLT Benefit Solutions believes.

JLT Benefit Solutions has confirmed it has appointed J.P. Morgan Asset Management head of UK institutional business Peter Ball.