Defined Contribution

Smart Pension is set to take on all members and employers of the Welplan Pensions Master Trust, following its closure last year.

Longer life expectancies, caring responsibilities, and lower average salaries leave women’s retirement savings lacking. Mark Sullivan looks at how the US is closing the gap.

Fujitsu Pension Scheme has moved its defined contribution (DC) members into Willis Towers Watson’s LifeSight master trust, passing on full responsibility for the management of its members’ pension provisions.

Four in five of Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) members say the minimum age criterion for auto-enrolment (AE) should be dropped while two thirds also want it expanded to age 75.

After five years of pension freedoms, occupational schemes are still not offering a full suite of retirement options to members. Sonya Fraser explores the retirement bolt-ons they could offer

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) revealed savers are sticking with the auto-enrolment (AE) saving habit as the "pensions revolution continues".

A fifth of contract-based pension schemes expect to move to a master trust by 2025, along with a third of trust-based plans.

Auto-enrolment reforms have transformed the UK’s pension system. Nick Reeve looks at latest research examining the lessons to be learned from the process.

Cross-border pensions and savings vehicles are growing in popularity among multi-national companies, according to research by Willis Towers Watson (WTW).

Thinking Ahead Institute research shows that DC funds have more assets than DB across the world’s biggest markets.