Defined Contribution

Shadow pensions minister Gregg McClymont has attacked the government's consultation on scheme charges as too short and "phoney".

The industry has been eagerly awaiting guidance on scheme charges but the Department of Work and Pensions' consultation has raised more questions than it has answered. Here is Towers Watson's list of what we still need to know.

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