Defined Contribution

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US/UK - Target date funds have proved to be the best default option for US defined contribution plans, Harvard college professor David Laibson has claimed.

The "administrative nightmare" of auto-enrolment into National Employment Savings Trust will divert necessary attention from the scheme's investment strategy, the Pensions Institute warns.

UK - The "administrative nightmare" of auto-enrolment into National Employment Savings Trust will divert necessary attention from the scheme's investment strategy, the Pensions Institute warned.

Panellists consider the problems encountered over the last year and discuss the issues set to affect DC pensions over the coming year

Each month DC World asks readers for their views. This month we ask: how prepared do you feel employers are for the introduction of auto enrolment?

DC schemes are poised for a better 2010, but there are potholes ahead, as Sebastian Cheek reports

The department for work and pensions finally shattered the collective defined contribution dream late last year when it announced it would be taking no further action on this widely-supported form of risk sharing.

Pitmans Trustees is the latest organisation to publicly criticise the effectiveness and merit of the default fund in defined contribution pensions.

The re-branding of personal accounts as the National Employment Savings Trust is an important milestone in the process of implementing auto-enrolment and other employer duties from 2012.