Birthstar’s Henry Cobbe explains why it’s worth considering Target Date Funds for your auto-enrolment solution.

The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks 2013 report is developed from an annual survey of over 1,000 experts from industry, government, academia and civil society who were asked to review a landscape of 50 global risks.

The diversified growth fund (DGF) market is rapidly evolving and expanding. This white paper examines some of the key trends in DGF development and identifies what those trends mean for pension fund investors.

The Eurozone crisis and new legislation continue to threaten defined benefit pension plans. LCP look at what these threats are and what can be done to manage these pension risks.

FTSE 100 companies paid over £20 billion into their pension schemes during 2011 yet pension deficits fluctuated daily by up to £10 billion. This report looks at how the UK’s largest companies manage such sizeable pension challenges.

Whatever way you look at it, it is extremely difficult to justify market capitalisation as the basis for allocating one's assets between the various securities in a universe. In particular, does an investor in credit markets really want to make his/her biggest allocations to what are often the most

In this guide, you will find everything you need to design your de-risking plan, to ensure it can accommodate positive and negative events in future and to decide how to structure your operational model to deliver on this plan. The aim is to be practical, so there are key questions to ask yourself

This study examines the relative ability of the Russell Stability Indexes to identify company risk. The sample used covers the period from 1996 to 2011 and comprises 39,577 company-year observations. The sets of tests used, based on three weekly correlated proxies for company risk, all found that

Over the past month, risky assets nosedived on the back of more disappointing high frequency macro-economic data and, even more importantly, the unpleasant reminder of how important politics can become. While French elections provided no surprise, Mr Hollande’s negotiations with the German

In this brief 8 page insight, JP Morgan introduce a new asset allocation rule that calibrates the amount of uncertainty in forecasts and weights Risk Parity and traditional asset allocations accordingly. A full length summary of this paper is also available on Financial Library.