Defined Contribution

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.

We must take urgent action to drive up member understanding of their pensions, or risk a generation of ill remunerated retirees, says Karen Bolan.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has revealed 90% of people are saving into the largest master trusts, creating a “safe and stable” workplace pension market.

Emma Douglas is head of defined contribution at Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM). After 20 years at the top of the pension and investing sector, she tells Laura Miller how diversity initiatives fail, the blunt answer to the female boss problem,...

Every change to the operation of running a master trust requires a total rethink for its schemes. Hope William-Smith looks at how trusts are meeting this challenge.