Investment

GLOBAL - Global pension assets totalled US$29.5trn at year end 2009, up 14% from the previous year, according to a report by the International Financial Services London.

The Pensions Regulator has filed a £2.1bn claim in a Canadian court against Nortel Networks.

Each month DC World asks readers for their views. This month we ask: an independent trustee recently branded DC default investment strategies as a cop out by trustees - do you agree?

The Pensions Institute has warned that the "administrative nightmare" of auto-enrolment into NEST will divert necessary attention from the scheme's investment strategy. Do you agree?

This years' Pensions Advisory Service seminar was, to a certain extent, dominated by the implications of the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST). This was hardly surprising given that NEST's recently appointed chairman, Lawrence Churchill, was in...

Some 51% of scheme managers believe the development of shared risk schemes would have benefited the industry if implemented, a survey by Professional Pensions has revealed (PP, February 4).

The debate over the suitability of target date funds in the UK continues to roll on with the publication of new research in February. (PP, February 15)

The final batch of regulations governing auto-enrolment into qualifying pension schemes from 2012 was short of one rather key component.

As target date funds emerge as the likely choice for NEST's deafult fund, Sebastian Cheek looks at what the industry must do to prepare and considers what lessons can be learnt from the US DC market

MEXICO - Mexican pension regulator Comisión Nacional del Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro (CONSAR) has expanded the range of equities pension funds can buy and introduced flexible value-at-risk (VaR) rules in a bid to better adapt to market volatility....