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Schemes are abandoning passive trackers in favour of multi-asset and target date funds, DCisions research claims.

BlackRock has teamed up with DCisions in a bid to improve its defined contribution portfolio benchmarking and customer insight capabilities.

Industry gets behind PP call to arms on decent defaults

Andrew Short discovers that in an era of high volatility and with auto-enrolment approaching, the traditional view that equities are best is being met with increasing scepticism.

Defined contribution schemes need clearer objectives to engage members with their pensions, according to a panel of experts.

Andrew Short takes a look at diversified growth funds, and outcome-driven tailored investment that is being seen as a solution to ever-shrinking retirement funds.

DCisions and Friends Life have developed the Friends Life Workplace Savings Index to track the investment behaviour of more than 700,000 of its consumers.

Women's contributions to occupational schemes fell 5% in real terms over the last 12 months, despite average contributions rising in line with inflation.

The financial crisis significantly affected the saving behaviour of the National Employment Savings Trust's target market, with 46% making a change and 14% stopping contributions all together, according to research.

DCisions has appointed a product development manager to spearhead the development and marketing of the firm's expanding range of products.