Defined Contribution

Auto-enrolment (AE) provider Smart Pension has launched a simplified and standardised two-page annual statement, which members can view on its online app.

Just over a third of women claim they do not have a pension plan compared to 17% of men, a Willis Owen survey has found.

The number of women participating in a workplace pension has increased by 70% since auto-enrolment (AE) began, analysis by Equiniti reveals.

NEST will work with RepRisk and Sustainalytics to identify emerging ESG risks and screen out certain assets from its members' portfolios, the master trust has announced.

The net-pay anomaly is unfair on the lowest-paid savers who need the top-up, argues Adrian Boulding.

Improved diversity on master trust boards can enable greater understanding of wider socioeconomic circumstances, argues James Phillips.

KAS Bank has launched an end-to-end cost transparency solution for defined contribution (DC) schemes to assist in the delivery of chair's statements.

People retiring in the UK will on average outlive their pension savings by 10 years, according to research by the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Steps to improve auto-enrolment are uncontroversial and obvious, but the government is dawdling on introducing the necessary changes, argues Jack Jones.

While there has been a surge in the number of people investing for retirement, Jonathan Stapleton says too few are engaged with their investments and explains why this must change.