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The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has called for a levy to be raised on the industry to fund the organisation and strengthen its "operational independence".

This week respondents support the ban on consultancy charging, endorse elected member-nominated trustees, and are equivocal on the benefits of collective defined contribution.

The majority of this week's respondents thought elected member-nominated trustees was the best way to constitute a board. Just over a quarter said that appointing member-nominated directors was a better a process.

Respondents were split down the middle over whether the government should make it easier for pensioners to release equity from their homes.

Buzz contributors were not wholly convinced that defined contribution members in the UK would benefit from moving to large scale collective saving.

Almost half of Buzz contributors think The Pensions Regulator managed to find the right balance between its competing obligations with its latest funding statement.

Two thirds of Buzz contributors rejected claims that the ban on consultancy charging was putting the success of auto-enrolment at risk. The Association of British Insurers (ABI) had claimed the measured threatened to derail the flagship policy.