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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.

SWITZERLAND - The funding levels of Swiss pension funds continued to recover in the last three months of 2009 as the stock market rally refused to fizzle, a survey showed.

So, Lawrence Churchill is to leave the Pension Protection Fund to become the first chairman of NEST Corporation, the rather shadowy sounding body that will run the National Employment Savings Trust.

The Pensions Regulator formerly exercised its powers in almost 800 active cases over a period of six months last year.

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.

The warnings have been coming for some time.

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?