DC

With auto-enrolment putting the focus on default strategies, Andrew Short considers the value of multi-asset investing and the problems when classifying multi-asset funds.

Topics discussed by panellists this month include European real estate, the retail sector, alternatives, and property appetite among DC funds.

More than 400,000 scheme members could be missing out on hundreds of pounds in annual contributions by failing to claim tax relief, warns Standard Life.

Consultant Mercer has added another defined contribution heavy hitter to its team with a senior appointment from Towers Watson.

Michael Bow investigates how auto-enrolment has worked elsewhere

Deregulation takes a tentative step forward, says Jonathan Stapleton

The Pensions Management Institute will be switching tack over the course of 2012 in response to the changing nature of the pensions industry.

Andrew Short explains what trustees will have to concentrate on to manage auto-enrolment.

Trustees of the Michelin UK's Pension and Life Assurance Plan have appointed Hymans Robertson to act as the consultant to its defined contribution section.