Investment

Pension schemes and investors need to understand how companies they invest in manage their workforce, the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has said.

Pension schemes should focus on the longer term and avoid any “knee-jerk” reactions to market volatility, the Pensions Regulator (TPR) has said.

The value of the pound had continued to drop due to the UK’s decision to leave the EU, and has fallen below $1.32 against the US dollar.

Knowledgeable investors will be capitalising on the volatility in global financial markets after the EU referendum whatever the outcome, according to a leading international financial consultancy.

Risk exposures would change radically if the UK were to leave the European Union because larger companies’ earnings from the EU far outweigh those from the UK.That warning has come from Old Mutual Asset Management in its report Brexit: An Analysis of Economic Exposure.

Independent UK retail stockbroker Share Centre says its customers still favour leaving the European Union but by a narrower margin than they did in February, its latest customer survey found.

Keith Goodby and Mary Boyle ask whether insurers can profit from illiquidity premiums after the implementation of Solvency II

Some 15% of people do not know what fund choices there are when making investment decisions for their pensions or have never reviewed them, according to Aviva’s latest Working Lives report.

A failure to properly diversify portfolios is considered one of the “top investment mistakes” for individuals, according to consultancy deVere Group.

The UK is not investing enough in infrastructure and risks becoming globally uncompetitive, the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) warns.