The disconnect between the desire to be secure in retirement and setting up an achievable financial plan is still prevalent among workers, research suggests.

A group of employers reluctant to fund a £370m industry-wide scheme deficit tried to reinstate a provision which would have terminated the pension fund.

Truestone Employee Benefits has been sold to London-based wealth manager Helm Godfrey.

Schemes could shift to 75% bond allocations over the next five years as the desire to reduce investment mismatching gathers pace, a consultant says.

Britvic closed its defined benefit pension scheme to future accrual in April and switched all members to its existing defined contribution plan, results show.

DMGT is set to agree a 12-year deficit recovery plan with trustees which will pump about £344m into the defined benefit scheme, results show.

Ensuring the administration underpinning auto-enrolment is simple and flexible is the only way small and micro employers will comply without problems, B&CE Benefit Schemes says.

Gut wrenching indexation decisions

Cable & Wireless Communications has pumped an additional £64m into its superannuation fund in a bid to slash its £161m deficit by 2016, results reveal.

Dairy Crest, which closed its defined benefit scheme to future accrual last year, has cut its deficit by about £82m on an accounting basis.