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Behaviour Finance: A question of timing

Professional Pensions | 16 Mar 2010 | 12:43

Professor Shlomo Benartzi of the University of California is working with AXA on the issue of behavioural finance and its implications for group pensions. Given present stock market volatility, we look at investment-related issues and, in particular, changes to the investment decisions made by both employers and employees

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The ECR: Paving the way to 2012

Toby Christie, employer compliance regime policy manager at The Pensions Regulator, explains how the regulator’s policy team has been preparing legislation to ease the country into auto-enrollment

Professional Pensions | 11 Mar 2010 | 09:00

A cautious approach to ETV

Tom Selby looks at enhanced transfer value (ETV) exercises and asks why so many industry experts are opposed to them

Professional Pensions | 11 Mar 2010 | 09:00

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Election 2010: Interview with Nigel Waterson

Conservative pensions spokesman Nigel Waterson talks to Sebastian Cheek about his party’s plans should they take office

Professional Pensions | 11 Mar 2010 | 09:00

Closure to accrual – managing the legacy

You’ve taken the painful step of closing your defined benefit pension plan to future accrual, but that does not mean your pension issues are sorted. Lane Clark & Peacock partner Richard Murphy looks at the challenges facing companies and trustees to deliver legacy pension benefits while controlling costs

Professional Pensions | 04 Mar 2010 | 09:00

Feature: Seeking returns from cash

As the financial crisis-induced demand for cash begins to wane, Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at where cautious fund managers are seeking returns

Professional Pensions | 04 Mar 2010 | 09:00

Managers back focus on administration

Nearly two-thirds of pension managers believe an increasing regulatory focus on scheme administration will improve service levels for members.

Professional Pensions | 04 Mar 2010 | 09:00

Analysis: Choosing how to reduce risk

Matthew Craig looks at the stages trustees must go through to deal with scheme liabilities, and the factors they should consider before opting for a buy-in or buyout

Professional Pensions | 26 Feb 2010 | 13:06

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Analysis: Charting the rise of DC

Helen Morrissey talks to Paul Macro about the results of Towers Watson's FTSE 100 defined contribution pension scheme survey

Professional Pensions | 25 Feb 2010 | 09:00

Default funds in the firing line

Each month DC World asks readers for their views. This month we ask: an independent trustee recently branded DC default investment strategies as a cop out by trustees – do you agree?

Professional Pensions | 22 Feb 2010 | 09:00

Preparing for target date funds

As target date funds emerge as the likely choice for NEST’s deafult fund, Sebastian Cheek looks at what the industry must do to prepare and considers what lessons can be learnt from the US DC market

Professional Pensions | 22 Feb 2010 | 09:00

American friends: Bringing class actions to the UK

Giovanni Legorano investigates the increasing trend for US law firms to seek security class action business in western Europe

Professional Pensions | 18 Feb 2010 | 09:00

NAPF View: Building a successful NEST

David McCourt outlines the National Association of Pension Funds’ response to the department for work and pensions’ consultation document on default options

Professional Pensions | 15 Feb 2010 | 12:13

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