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Chile's regulator has made it easier for the country to invest its US$114bn in pension assets outside its home country. Rodrigo Amaral reports

Each month DC World asks readers for their views. This month we ask: How do you feel the governance of DC schemes can be improved?

SWEDEN - AP7's Premium Savings and Premium Choice funds both bounced back last year after a torrid 2008.

AUSTRALIA - Western Australia-based superannuation fund GESB has hired Schroders Investment Management to run a A$2.7bn (US$2.5bn) international equity brief.

A conservative investment approach meant Brazilian pensions suffered only minor scrapes during the crisis, but too-strong funding levels bring problems of their own, as Dorothee Gnaedinger reports

James Buckley and Mark Callender consider the Asian property investment market

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