Are elections the right way to create a trustee board? Some believe they only elect popular people who are not necessarily the most skilled for the job. Our panel suggests a selection process is becoming a more popular way of choosing. Four experts give their views on the trend.
Opt-out rates as low as 5% indicate inertia success
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February 4, 2013
The UK’s largest companies are witnessing auto-enrolment opt-out rates of as low as five per cent, consultants and providers have reported, confounding predictions that 20-30 per cent of workers would reject a workplace pension.
Shop staff's passive DGF default leads field in 2012
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January 28, 2013
Tens of thousands of retail employees enjoyed some of the UK’s biggest gains to their defined contribution pension pots in 2012, through a multi-asset default fund.
Figuring out the state pension
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January 22, 2013
Opinion: Senior actuaries were quick off the mark with a host of calculations to make sense of the forthcoming flat-rate state pension.
How have DGFs performed over 1, 3 and 5 years?
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January 22, 2013
Market sentiment has been with diversified growth funds ever since the financial crisis started. Their flexible approach to investing has allowed them to move into areas of opportunity and to avoid asset classes that were overvalued or that were about to crash. Now as equities recover their performance is not looking so spectacular.
Islington: Residential property to provide ethical, long-term returns
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January 18, 2013
Video: Richard Greening, chair of Islington Council's pensions subcommittee, explained why the £800m fund made its residential property allocation despite some member concerns, in this first edition of Policymakers and Decision-makers (5:30).
Bond bubble
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January 16, 2013
How worried should pension schemes be by widespread forecasts of a collapse in bond prices in 2013?
Editorial: Baby boomers keep their dream
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January 16, 2013
The efforts of pensioners and those within the UK pensions industry to campaign for the right to retain a retail price index link to their pensions is legitimate.
Spike in housing opportunities for funds
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January 16, 2013
A flurry of fund manager initiatives have launched, offering pension funds long-term, inflation-beating returns from residential housing in order to fill a funding gap left by the reduction in government contributions and bank loans.
Leading diversified fund beaten by equities in 2012
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January 14, 2013
The £6bn Baring Dynamic Asset Allocation Fund returned 5.5 per cent in 2012 for scheme investors including the Hammersmith & Fulham pension fund, compared with a 11.6 per cent return for the FTSE All Share Index.