AllianceBernstein has launched a default investment strategy for defined contribution schemes.
Asset managers are staying in the "comfort zone of defined benefit" and are failing to seek business opportunities in defined contribution schemes, Spence Johnson says.
UK - The confusing nature of UK pensions is damaging competitiveness and could stymie the recovery from recession, top industry figures warned.
Jonathan Stapleton speaks to Barnardo's pensions manager Graham Brown ahead of his retirement at the end of January
Standard Life has been fined £2.45m by the Financial Services Authority for serious failures relating to its Pension Sterling Fund.
Defined contribution default investment strategies are a "cop out" by trustees, an independent trustee firm says.
Almost half a billion pounds of pension funds were transferred abroad in the first two years after pensions simplification to escape alternatively secured pension tax penalties, A J Bell says.
Professional Pensions has launched a online poll in a further expansion of www.professionalpensions.com
Around three quarters of charities have not assessed the impact of legislative changes to their pension strategy in 2012, Foster Denovo and ACEVO says.
SPAIN - Assets under management (AUM) of pension funds falling under the individual system category increased by 6.9% in 2009 to €51.6bn (US$74.8bn) largely due to positive investment returns, data from research company VDOS Stochastics revealed.