This study analyses a sample of 8,255 UK personal pension funds operated by 60 providers over a 30 years’ period (1980 – 2009) in order to assess their short- and long-term performance and argues that it is inappropriate to evaluate pension funds using methods applied to evaluate mutual...

This paper studies the relationship between fund and provider characteristics, and fund performance using a sample of 4,197 U.K personal pension funds operated by 35 providers over a 30 years’ period (1980 – 2009). The fund performance is measured on an annual basis (short-term) and over the...

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the annual and of the long-term performance of personal pension funds relative to their Primary Prospectus Benchmarks (PPBs) and T-bills. The study covers 9,659 personal pension funds from across all 30 ABI investment sectors that operated in the...

This paper studies the relationship between fund and provider characteristics, and fund performance using a sample of 4,197 U.K personal pension funds operated by 35 providers over a 30 years' period (1980-2009). The fund performance is measured on an annual basis (short-term) and over the whole...