Analysis

Despite high political uncertainty across the world, the VIX index is at unusually low levels. This is a potentially dangerous combination, writes Stephanie Baxter.

An argument has been made for DB schemes to copy corporate governance structures to boost trustees' accountability. James Phillips explores the idea

The West Midlands Pension Fund is well on the way to full transparency, and has already used it to challenge managers on fees and exit high cost funds, CIO Jason Fletcher tells Stephanie Baxter.

James Phillips explores what the win for the trustees in the British Airways trial means for other pension schemes.

As a transparency code is launched for the Local Government Pension Scheme, Stephanie Baxter looks at how it could set a gold standard across the industry.

Last year posed huge challenges for active investment as markets were driven by politics rather than economics. Stephanie Baxter looks at research showing a large fall in managers beating the benchmark

Michael Klimes asks if introducing a requirement to appoint scheme lawyers would improve governance

James Phillips explores the diverse range of responses to the government's green paper on sustainability and affordability of defined benefit schemes.

Michael Klimes examines how a gap in scheme data could shape the development of the dashboard.

Deficits could fall by hundreds of billions of pounds if the six-year stall in life expectancy improvements becomes a long-term trend. However, there is a risk of taking too much notice of short-term changes, writes Stephanie Baxter.