Defined Contribution

Office of Fair Trading targets charges, governance and scale

The Office of Fair Trading has targeted charges, governance and small schemes in its recommendations for reforming defined contribution (DC) saving.

Old, high-charging pension arrangements and small trust-based schemes are a threat to £40bn of defined contribution (DC) savings, the Office of Fair Trading has found.

Rachel Dalton looks at who must do the most saving

The Pensions Institute has published a set of 16 principles of good practice for modelling defined contribution (DC) in a bid to improve the way schemes are designed.

How the Pensions Institute thinks providers could improve DC

Animal care retailer Pets at Home has chosen Legal & General's master trust as its auto-enrolment (AE) provider.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) should reverse its decision to consolidate savers' pensions through a system that would see pots following members as they change jobs, says a thinktank.

In a paper published today, Centre for Policy Studies fellow Michael Johnson made 15 recommendations on how the government can address the problem of small pots.

Almost half of Buzz participants were unsure as to whether the Association of British Insurers' (ABI) annuity window will be of any use to consumers.