DC risk sharing and how to go about it
By Julie HendersonFebruary 2010 (Magazine)
The investment losses suffered in the last two years of downturn have inspired new thinking – not least on how to improve the risk-return profile of defined contribution (DC) pension investing and how to secure cheap DC guarantees. Many of these ideas were discussed at a conference on DC risk-sharing in January hosted at The University of Exeter Business School. And they could be useful to the pension regimes of most countries, according to participants.