Defined Contribution

The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) is planning to add single-year maturity gilt funds to the ‘building block' funds it uses in its default retirement date funds.

Defined contribution trustees face a huge challenge in measuring 'good value for money', writes Stephanie Baxter

Proposals to improve DC governance are passing the buck to trustees

Stephanie Baxter looks at whether FTSE's new benchmarks will help trustees improve DC investment strategies

Trustees must ensure default investment strategies are flexible

Barings Asset Management is to launch two multi-asset funds to service the auto-enrolment and decumulation markets.

Defined contribution (DC) schemes offered to staff of FTSE350 firms are still overly invested in equities with stagnant allocations, according to research from Schroders.

The value of defined contribution (DC) lifestyle funds has fallen by 5% on average since May as bond prices dropped, research from Hargreaves Lansdown shows.