UK employers are lagging behind in terms of the proportion of pension contributions they are providing to their staff, a study of worldwide defined contribution (DC) provision reveals.

Jamie Jenkins, one of the three chairs of the DWP external advisory group of the AE review, speaks to Kim Kaveh about its key themes.

Some 20% of FTSE 100 defined benefit (DB) pension schemes would be at risk of failure if the UK entered another economic downturn, research suggests.

This week's top stories include Scottish Widows buying Zurich's £15bn pension business, and Now Pensions appointing Dalriada Trustees to its trustee board.

The disparity in the investment performance of the UK's top 10 defined contribution (DC) default funds is so large that savers in the best and worst funds are seeing a difference in annualised returns of nearly 50%, JLT research reveals.

Auto-enrolment has proved a great success in its first five years, says Chris Knight, but the financial services sector has much work to do to ensure Britain's workers actually end up enjoying a comfortable retirement.

Nearly half (47%) of advisers have seen an increase in clients disagreeing with defined benefit (DB) transfer recommendations, according to Momentum Pensions.

Now Pensions has appointed Dalriada Trustees to its trustee board in order to resolve historic data issues, while Joanne Segars will also join later this year.

Nudged winter fuel payments into life

Six in ten hospitality workers are slipping through the net of automatic enrolment (AE), a Trades Union Congress (TUC) analysis has found.