Investment

There are now less than 30 months to the advent of automatic enrolment.

The coalition government will take a "long hard look" at auto-enrolment and the delivery of NEST before deciding on its future, Steve Webb says.

US - Account-based retirement plans for new salaried employees are increasingly replacing defined benefit plans at large US companies, a study by Towers Watson revealed.

Trustees would be failing in their primary role if they allow issues of ethics to cloud their investment decisions, Ian Greenwood says.

In the first of two features detailing the first meeting of our DC World Steering Club, Helen Morrissey asks how investment strategies are evolving

Pension schemes are increasingly appointing chief investment officers for in-house investment expertise and to slash the costs incurred by using third-party consultants, DMGT says.

Schemes must be wary of currency exposure, particularly when hedging to sterling, J.P. Morgan Asset Management warns.

Disappointing returns from active managers sparked an overhaul of investment strategy at the £9.6bn Strathclyde Pension Fund, delegates heard.

Some 73% of trustees plan to cut scheme exposure to risk but 65% say the price of de-risking strategies is holding them back, research reveals

Sebastian Cheek discovers an industry in favour of scrapping compulsory annuitisation at 75 but one that says the new coalition must do more to address the wider tax framework around retirement savings