Investment

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.

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US - President Barack Obama called for the discontinuation of tax cuts for investment fund managers in his first State of the Union address yesterday.

Investors in Australia, the UK and Sweden ranked highest in a new "Environmental Real Estate Index" developed on the back of a global environmental survey commissioned by three large European pension funds.

A group of investors led by Hermes has forced Infineon's designated chairman Klaus Wucherer to promise to step down after only one year instead of five if elected to head the chipmaker's supervisory board.