Large employers' desire for brand recognition has restricted Xafinity Consulting from winning big name clients for its auto-enrolment mastertrust, according to its chief executive, demonstrating fierce competition in the market.
Investment trends – an overview of approaches
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November 20, 2012
Pensions Week quizzed leading scheme managers, chief investment officers, trustees and consultants on investment beliefs. The findings were illuminating, occasionally contradictory, but all evident of how schemes are having to adapt to survive a tough economic environment.
Should we use the term 'pension zombie'?
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November 20, 2012
The term ‘zombie’ for companies that only exist to pay deficit recovery payments to their pension funds has become common parlance in 2012.
Investment intelligence: the trustee confidence index – relationships with fund managers
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November 12, 2012
Are fund managers aiming for the same goal as the pension schemes that hire them, and do they inspire confidence in the trustees, David Rowley asks PW’s panel of experts from across the UK.
Hard-pressed schemes to flout data deadline
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November 12, 2012
Small or underfunded schemes are blindly ignoring the Pensions Regulator’s core data compliance deadline in December, administration experts report.
Editorial: US economics in 300 words
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November 12, 2012
Where is US growth coming from? The re-election of Barack Obama has unleashed a slew of opinions on the outlook for the world’s biggest economy. The mood is cautiously optimistic.
Intelligent thinking: 'The most significant problem faced by pension funds'
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November 7, 2012
Low yields from fixed income and the accompanying rise in asset valuations have forced pension funds and their advisers to seek alternatives, and potentially a higher level of risk. But does anyone have the answer?
Editorial: DC or DB: which is harder?
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November 5, 2012
Is it tougher being a trustee of a DB scheme or having responsibility for a DC scheme? It’s not a competition, of course, but I had always assumed DB was the harder until corrected this week by several DC specialists.
Pirelli: a fiduciary management case study
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October 30, 2012
Twelve months into a fiduciary relationship with Cardano, David Rowley speaks to Pirelli’s Flavio Cateni about the highs and lows of delegating investment decisions to a third party.
Compass becomes Nest's biggest win
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October 22, 2012
Compass Group, the contract foodservice and support services company, will become Nest’s biggest client when it auto-enrols in February.