This paper brings together the academic literature on individual and institutional investors in order to understand the nature of difficulties faced by them and set the background for the Special Issue. This introductory article and the papers in the Special Issue contribute to the debate on how...

The role of employers in setting up and overseeing pension schemes offered to their employees and the quality of investment schemes offered to individual investors have attracted considerable attention in the finance literature. This paper adds to the debate by showing that institutional...

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...