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QE in the dock
The unravelling of quantitative easing poses questions for anybody managing pension investments. Paul Farrow investigates
Pick me a winner
The adviser’s process for selecting default funds is arguably the most important stage in building a benefits package. Paul Farrow examines how intermediaries are approaching the task
The ultimate choice
Once again Corporate Adviser wants you, the advisers who effectively decide where most British workers’ pensions are invested, to vote for your favourite default fund. John Greenwood reports
Light at the end of the tunnel?
2009 has been a traumatic year for pension funds. Paul Farrow examines how advisers plan to negotiate the problems waiting down the line in 2010
Stability through diversity?
Diversified growth funds seem to tick many of the boxes when it comes to the challenges faced by default funds. Paul Farrow finds advisers still waiting for a longer track record
Pada's default dilemma
As Pada mulls industry responses to its investment consultation, advisers and providers reflect on how its default could change the market. Paul Farrow reports
Transfer deadline
Enhanced transfer values look set to rise as bond yields fall. Paul Farrow looks at what is being offered and how it is being invested
Passive aggressive
Three big outfits - BGI, L&G and State Street - dominate the index-tracking arena in the UK. Now they have a rival in the shape of US giant Vanguard. The tracker pioneer has just launched its first tracker funds aimed at British retail investors and is expected to be targeting workplace pensions later down the line.
Risk and responsibility
The demise of final salary schemes continues apace. There are now just three FTSE100 companies that have open defined benefit schemes following the move by BP to close its scheme to new employees.
Whose default is it?
Default fund performance varies wildly. Paul Farrow asks who is really responsible for investment strategy
Emerging from the shade
It wasn't so long ago that investors were waxing lyrical about emerging markets. Performance figures were mouth watering, with Latin American funds leading the way delivering returns in excess of 300 per cent over a three-year period to 2006.
Equity cult in the dock
A decade of negative real returns for equities has triggereddebate on whether shares should remain the core component of pensions. Paul Farrow investigates
