Defined Contribution

Buck Consultants and Wragge & Co have announced a joint venture offering a fixed fee auto-enrolment (AE) advice service to small and medium enterprises (SME).

In the final installment of the Scottish Widows roundtable on auto-enrolment the panel discusses the future of auto-enrolment.

Buzz respondents were split fairly evenly between two of the options proposed by the government for a cap on charges in auto-enrolment (AE) scheme, and leaving well alone.

The vast majority of contributors said there was a role for assets like property and infrastructure in defined contribution (DC) strategies.

The majority of respondents to this week's Buzz want the ban on consultancy charging in auto-enrolment (AE) schemes to be extended to cover all defined contribution (DC) schemes.

In the second part of our video roundtable the panellists discuss the challenges of dealing with auto-enrolment.

Defined ambition (DA) proposals could open the door to more flexible drawdown as master trusts provide both accumulation and decumulation vehicles, The Pensions Regulator (TPR) says.

Naomi Rainey looks at the practical implications of the DWP’s money purchase consultation

Pension PlayPen has launched a free comparison tool to rate and compare quotes from all the main pension providers.

Shares in Just Retirement have been priced at 225p each ahead of its initial public offering (IPO), based on a market capitalisation of £1.1bn.