Defined Contribution

Charles Cotton discusses the different approaches to pension benefits in the public and private sectors

As employers with DC schemes are discovering, bad news prompts questions about risk. Members of company pension schemes suddenly want to know more about their savings and how they can avoid loss. Some are asking whether they can simply cash in their pensions...

Trust-based defined contribution schemes will become "significantly" more popular with employers in the run up to 2012, Hymans Robertson believes.

February saw £42bn wiped off the value of defined contribution scheme assets, Aon Consulting figures reveal.

Many members will be disappointed with defined contribution schemes due to lack of knowledge, industry experts say.

In the latest of our series of fortnightly interviews with scheme managers, GIOVANNI LEGORANO talks to Royal Mail Pension Trustees chief executive Gerry Degaute about the problems posed by the current economic environment and how they can be addressed...

Sebastian Cheek discusses how an understanding of behavioural finance finance can help to encourage DC members take a more active interest in their pension scheme

CONTRACT based defined contribution schemes in the FTSE100 provide excessive investment choice compared with trust based DC alternatives, a Watson Wyatt survey reveals.

Falling markets have left some investments in defined contribution schemes worth less than the cash contributions made into them, PricewaterhouseCoopers says.

UK - Falling markets have left some investments in defined contribution schemes worth less than the cash contributions made into them, PricewaterhouseCoopers says.