Defined Contribution

The auto-enrolment (AE) programme is at risk of derailment if the government increases contribution rates too rapidly, Zurich has warned.

Scottish Widows has invested a further £30m in a major workplace savings programme to improve products and services for its corporate pension clients.

Up 13.1% from 2015

One in five small employers are missing their auto-enrolment (AE) staging date, according to Now Pensions' client figures.

Flexible payments from pension rose to £5.7bn in 2016 as people increasingly sought to take advantage of the freedoms, according to HM Revenue and Customs' (HMRC) figures.

An index has been launched by IRESS to compare annuity yields against equities, cash ISAs and drawdown.

Scottish Widows will remove early exit fees across all of its workplace and personal pension policies ahead of the charge cap deadline.

A growing number of businesses are failing to enrol their workers in a company pension scheme on time according to figures from Aviva.

More than 20% of 23 to 36-year-olds are likely to opt out of a workplace pension they have been auto-enrolled into, research by Dunstan Thomas suggests.

AE staging dates are spread across seven years, but small businesses will have very little time to prepare for rate increases. James Phillips reports