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The Confederation for British Industry is set to back the key principles behind auto-enrolment and NEST in its submission to the independent review body, PP can reveal.

Reading my PP email on Monday, I noticed that Mercer's Chris Hull had come up with some valuable ideas on how to help solve the issue of public sector pensions.

Smaller consultancy firms could win the "battle" for medium-sized schemes in the next five years if consolidation among the top firms continues, Steve Delo says.

Lord John Hutton's independent public sector pensions commission should consider an LGPS-style framework for all taxpayer funded schemes, a consultant says.

GLOBAL - Pension funds should be investing at least 50% of their assets in emerging markets, Ashmore head of research Jerome Booth suggests.

Simply levelling-down public sector pensions would be a "short-sighted" approach both in the short and longer-term, the Association of Consulting Actuaries says.

The government should reform the current contracting out rules which give an unfair advantage to public sector workers and employers, Ros Altmann says.

Aviva Investors chief executive Alain Dromer has been named the next Association of British Insurers investment committee chairman.

Each month DC World asks readers for their views. This month we ask: Would early access to pension pots encourage greater saving or generate insufficient retirement funds?

Yes - wherever this is practically possible. From Towers Watson point of view as one of the pioneers of STP (SWIFTNet funds ISO20022) it is already established as an industry standard especially within the third party administrator (TPA) arena.  For example,...