Industry

Companies could face provider shortages should auto-enrolment planning continue to stall, Mercer warns.

Narrowing Consumer Prices Index and Retail Prices Index inflation will save schemes switching to CPI just 60p a week for each scheme member, according to figures.

Auto-enrolment may not make a difference to saving rates until 2015, according to the Con­federation of British Industry.

Phil Redding of Aviva Investors explains how inflation in 
emerging markets can benefit your portfolio.

Social care will suffer as people work for longer and receive a smaller pension, Pensions Policy Institute research director Chris Curry told delegates.

Paul Sweeting of J.P. Morgan Asset Management explains why radical changes of plan are an unwise reaction to market turbulence.

This week's letter to the editor comes from Business Service Plus' Malcolm Deering

Trustees should resist the urge to cut communications budgets in response to evidence pensions are becoming less highly valued by employees, argues Capita Fiduciary Group.

The retail distribution review will "ratchet up" the professionalism of financial advisers, according to the Financial Service Authority's head of investment policy Peter Smith.

A code of conduct for corporate trustees is being "examined" by The Association of Corporate Trustees.