The overload of paperwork trustees face means a third are unable to redress gaps in their knowledge and understanding.

Funds with more stringent governance requirements for firms they invest in are less volatile, according to the National Employment Savings Trust (Nest).

A Gibraltar-based lawyer, giving evidence in connection with an alleged £52m fraud, did not believe “anything dishonest was going on”, a court heard.

JLT has taken its first steps into institutional asset management with the launch of a diversified growth fund (DGF).

The £4.8bn Baring Dynamic Asset Allocation Fund has taken big profits from a large position in Italian government bonds.

Pension funds may be able to use derivatives to hedge up to 89% of the capital reserves needed to back alternative assets under Solvency II as it currently stands.

UK liability-driven investment (LDI) specialists have backed a Europe-wide bid to roll back reforms aimed at increasing transparency in the derivatives markets.

The government used Wednesday’s Queen’s speech to confirm its intention to pass legislation this year on two key areas of pension policy reform.

This is the second part of our investigation into how pension funds can bolster shareholder power in the fight against runaway executive remuneration. Large institutional shareholders and corporate governance activists give their views to Katie Morley.

A “worst-case scenario” of European regulatory reform will force the cost of liability-driven investment (LDI) strategies up by 45%.

Tony Morris, alleged to be responsible for a £52m pension fund fraud, was “sociopathic”, while trustee Graham Pitcher had “small-man syndrome”, a court has heard.