Wake-up call for pension funds

'It has come to something when a boring actuarial investment consultant is invited to speak at an investor relations conference.' Those were the encouraging words of Watson Wyatt's Philip Robinson at the beginning of his presentation to the UK's Investor Relations Society annual gathering in London in April. However, these days the thoughts and projections of pensions consultants are listened to with keen interest by those on the front line of investor communications.The thrust of Robinson's