Employee Benefits

ALMOST 70pc of employees believe they will take up auto-enrolment into an occupational pension from 2012, government research claims.

AUSTRALIA - Proposed reforms to the calculation of employer superannuation contributions for income test purposes are too complex and will leave both employers and employees worse off, Mercer says.

AUSTRALIA - The government has rejected a call from leading economists to drop compulsory superannuation contributions to 6% as part of an economic stimulus package.

COMMERCIAL law firm Beachcroft has re-launched its occupational pension scheme for its 1400 employees.

Trustees of the British Regional Airlines Group pension scheme have appointed Mercer as actuarial and investment adviser to its Isle of Man-based pension schemes.

US public pension plans walk a fine line between being some of the world's most sophisticated money managers and bowing to government rules and bureaucracy. Andrew Sheen investigates

In its second annual roundtable on the topic, Global Pensions gathered key spokespeople in Stockholm to discuss investment in emerging markets

Christine Senior examines the properties of gold as an asset class in its own right by talking to some of its advocates in the investment world

THE Local Authority Pension Fund Forum has become a member of the Investor Network on Climate Risk.

UK - Around 30% of UK workers have not saved or contributed enough towards a pension plan due to financial constraints, while those approaching retirement fear for the future, new research shows.