Curious as to how pension funds of the past faced economic crises, Daniel Bescoby, a member of the advisory committee of The Pensions Archive Trust, researches the National Association of Pension Funds minute books held in the archive to find some answers...

Following the global crash's punishing exposure of over-correlated investments, Emma Cusworth looks at how UK schemes have diversified to de-risk their portfolios

Dear Editor The article in last week's issue - (TPR: small scheme trustees are failing to monitor administrators, PP, 24 February) - raises some broader issues, and not just for smaller schemes.

Christine Senior looks at options for rescuing schemes from the jaws of risk

Cemlyn Foulkes assesses the interim report from Lord Hutton's Public Services Pension Commission from the standpoint of active and pensioner members of the Local Government Pension Scheme

The panel discusses the recent trend towards emerging markets

Panellists consider how target date funds will affect the UK market as well as the threat they pose to lifestyling by becoming the default option for many UK pension schemes

Mercer senior consultant Rosie Kwok gives us the background for this month's discussion. The government has confirmed that the default retirement age (DRA) will be phased out completely by the end of September 2011. This change in employment law does...

Scheme managers were pretty evenly split over whether the government should act to stop regulatory arbitrage between trust-based and contract-based defined contribution schemes.

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