Industry

The Pensions Ombudsman has found in favour of Friends Life after a consumer had complained it misled him about the nature of its treatment of additional voluntary contributions.

The Pensions Management Institute has seen take-up of its Diploma in Employee Benefits and Retirement Savings soar to over 200 people since its launch in September.

Yesterday, the Department for Work and Pensions published the revised timetable of staging dates for auto-enrolment. PP rounds up industry reaction and looks at how the changes will help larger as well as smaller employees.

Pension Corporation's David Collinson takes John Redwood to task

With auto-enrolment putting the focus on default strategies, Andrew Short considers the value of multi-asset investing and the problems when classifying multi-asset funds.

Letter to the editor...

Topics discussed by panellists this month include European real estate, the retail sector, alternatives, and property appetite among DC funds.

Grasping the nettle of guaranteed minimum pensions

Defined benefit pension fund investors should diversify their portfolios into alternative assets to hedge against rising inflation and equity volatility, Morgan Stanley say.