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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?

Raquel Pichardo-Allison discusses the changing relationship between pensions funds and their consultants, and asks whether consultants will need to share their role with third-party providers.

GLOBAL - The relationship between pension funds and their consultants is changing with scheme managers often asking their advisers to be more proactive with their investment advice, industry experts said.

Institutional investors flooded into commodities last year as prices soared. Industry experts say the asset class' popularity isn't likely to wane in 2010, as Lynn Strongin Dodds reports

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

Asset managers are staying in the "comfort zone of defined benefit" and are failing to seek business opportunities in defined contribution schemes, Spence Johnson says.

UK - Asset managers are staying in the "comfort zone of defined benefit" and are failing to seek business opportunities in defined contribution schemes, consulting firm Spence Johnson said.

The Investment Management Association has appointed Douglas Ferrans as chairman.

FRANCE - The Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites has hired five managers to run a total of around €1.5bn (US$2.1bn) in fixed income mandates.