Research

This month’s index shows buyout affordability at persistently low levels, but buy-ins achieved at much better rates. Trustees are also urged to take advantage of infrastructure investments.

Pensions Week quizzed leading scheme managers, chief investment officers, trustees and consultants on investment beliefs. The findings were illuminating, occasionally contradictory, but all evident of how schemes are having to adapt to survive a tough economic environment. 

Low yields from fixed income and the accompanying rise in asset valuations have forced pension funds and their advisers to seek alternatives, and potentially a higher level of risk. But does anyone have the answer?

Trustees were asked: ‘What word would you use to describe your responsibilities as an institutional investor, and why?’. David Rowley delves into their responses.

‘Is there anything fund managers could be doing better, or that you would like to see more of?’ This was the question asked of trustees and scheme managers. David Rowley reports on their reactions

With risk and return at the forefront of most schemes’ investment strategies, trustees hope multi-asset funds will provide that indefinable piece of alchemy to get them through tough economic times.

One of the worst insults ever hurled at pension schemes is that they are often hundred million-pound businesses run with all the sophistication of a corner shop.

Pensions Week conducts exclusive research, in association with Threadneedle Investments, to discover more about the investment decisions taken by scheme managers, trustees, consultants and fund managers.