Defined Contribution

The majority of respondents rejected the idea of large employers splitting staff bonuses between cash and pension contributions.

Planned reforms for defined contribution (DC) charges, governance and transparency will not take effect before April 2015, pensions minister Steve Webb has confirmed.

Retirees with small pots should be allowed to draw down savings as fixed-term pensions to enable them to defer taking a state pension, says the Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA).

The later scheme members retire, the longer they are likely to live according to research carried out by Club Vita.

First Actuarial’s Henry Tapper says the public is not hell-bent on guarantees

Natasha Browne examines the Pensions Institute’s report on member value for money

Natasha Browne says charges must be cleaned up to gain public trust

PTL has launched a service to help trustees of defined contribution (DC) schemes produce the governance statements The Pensions Regulator (TPR) requires them to complete.

The government should make saving into a workplace pension compulsory to avoid 11 million Britons retiring in poverty, says Policy Exchange.

This week we want to know if the government is right to delay plans to cap DC charges and whether income drawdown should replace annuities as the default retirement option.