Defined Contribution

Helping trustees keep up to date with unrelenting regulatory change is at the heart of tomorrow's Professional Pensions' Defined Contribution Conference.

The success of freedom and choice will largely depend on the quality of advice and the number of people who receive it according to the industry.

The Treasury is seeking views on whether to allow defined contribution (DC) members to access their pensions before retirement to pay for financial advice.

Advisers and providers alike have attacked Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane's suggestion that property is a better retirement investment than pensions.

Three out of ten people are using the pension freedoms to put extra cash in bank accounts due to concerns about the economy, according to Citizens Advice.

It is important not to assume the size of a master trust is an automatic indicator of how well governed it is, according to Duncan Howorth.

Henry Tapper highlights how the decision making process for choosing a workplace pension might land employers in hot water.

A consultation into capping early exit charges for occupational pensions has revealed how "torturous and more opaque" the system is compared to personal pensions.

The regulator should completely ban all pension early exit charges to prevent any saver being penalised for taking advantage of the freedom and choice reforms, Hargreaves Lansdown has said.

Royal London has posted a significant increase in new business thanks to employers switching their auto-enrolment (AE) schemes from other providers.