Defined Contribution

The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) has teamed up with Vanguard to boost the research it does into defined contribution (DC) savers.

Schemes should look to technology and behavioural design to help members make the best financial decisions, according to a behavioural finance specialist.

Savers will make the wrong decisions if they are not appropriately guided when seeking to take advantage of the pension freedoms, according to Scottish Widows' Robert Cochran.

Businesses who use a net pay arrangement for defined contribution (DC) funds should reconsider enrolling their lowest earners into that scheme, Baroness Ros Altmann has said.

Kim Kaveh asks if the benefits of matching contributions are being communicated sufficiently.

Existing methods of tracking fund performance are not suitable for environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, First State Investments has said.

Millions of workers are missing out on 'buy-one-get-one free' pension cash from their employers, according to analysis by Royal London.

Around three quarters of eligible private sector employees saved into a workplace pension in at least three of the last four years, data from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has shown.

According to the DWP

Just small differences in approach to saving for retirement could cause people to lose huge portions of income, according to research by Royal London and Milliman.