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Towers Watson to fix post-retirement blues

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
Towers Watson is set to design longevity strategies that best suit super funds and insurers - ahead of the three million Australian baby boomers expected to retire over the next 20 years. Towers Watson (the former Watson Wyatt Australia merging with ...

Mercer urges STP implementation

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
Mercer has called for UK defined contribution pension plan trustees to adopt straight through processing (STP) systems or risk significant financial pain. STP involves the automation of communication about investment transactions between administrators ...

More room to slash super fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
... corporate, retail or industry. Some analyses were also split between fees charged by defined benefit (DB) versus defined contribution (DC) plans. The key finding is that many funds are, for the most part, below or just above the magic number of "below ...

Clock ticking for UK defined benefit schemes

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2009
... pension schemes expect to close them to all employees in the next three years, forcing employees to rely on defined contribution schemes instead. Watson Wyatt research found more than one million employees using a defined benefit pension may be forced ...

Active members can cause asset allocation headache

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
... a lot of problems for fund trustees if members start to act as chief investment officers. He cited the US defined contribution system where employees tend to make asset allocation decisions, which has resulted in significant underperformance over the ...

Watson Wyatt wins HSBC pension admin

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... in the second quarter, Watson Wyatt rolled out pensioner payroll services. Watson Wyatt is also providing defined contribution scheme members with an online fund portal which allows them to access their fund balance and investment data. The pension fund ...

Irish pensions suffer 25pc loss

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
... from 8.2 per cent at end of 2007 and 12.4 per cent at end 2003. The IAPF survey finds a continuing move to defined contribution (DC) schemes. Around 71 per cent of assets were managed on behalf of defined benefit schemes, 27 per cent were defined contribution ...

Not-for-profit super funds reign

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
Not-for-profit super funds have consistently beaten retail funds by an average 2.4 per cent per year over nearly a five year period - resulting in some retail funds' members getting around 40 per cent less in their final retirement benefits, new research ...

DC plans to axe managers

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
Two in five defined contribution plan sponsors in the US are expected to replace their underperforming fund managers in 2009, new research shows. According to Lori Lucas, defined contribution leader at US-based Callan Associates, the credit crisis has ...

Right on target: Vanguard

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
... The report, Target-Date Funds: Plan and Participant Adoption in 2007, is based on data from more than 1,300 defined contribution plans that offered target-date funds as of year-end 2007.