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Investors should move out of BRIC equities and concentrate on the US and non-BRIC emerging markets, warned Neptune Investment Management investment director Chris Taylor.

Schemes are underestimating the risks they are exposed to by up to 20% by basing their assumptions on "normality" and limiting their definition of risk, J.P. Morgan Asset Management says.

Pension funds investing in hedge funds should target emerging managers and distressed markets, according Neuberger Berman Alternative Investment Management.

Even small schemes should consider hedging longevity risk, Aon Hewitt believes. Managing principal and head of risk settlement Bird warned trustees against being put off by the "perception of price".

Half of employers still do not know how much auto-enrolment will cost them in their first 12 months of compliance, JLT Benefit Solutions research shows.

Hertfordshire County Council was ordered to pay a co-habitee's pension after it failed to inform a member about proper nomination procedures.

The £60,000 contribution notice issued in the Bonas case is an "enormous climb down" by The Pensions Regulator, a lawyer says.

Scheme sponsors are expected to take advantage of "enhanced buy-ins" to significantly reduce the cost of buy-ins, industry figures say.

Legal & General Investments has launched an environmental fund aimed at institutional investors to tap into companies providing low carbon technologies.

Trustees should pay greater attention to behavioural biases to make better group decisions, delegates heard.