Defined Contribution

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development will launch a guiding principles document for defined contribution schemes next month to improve global consistency in schemes.

Insurers have started to turn down employers who want to expand existing schemes for auto-enrolment, PP has learned.

Professional Pensions is set to publish a guide to auto-enrolment and pensions reform on June 28.

The Pensions Regulator has been urged to report on the workplace defined contribution market in greater detail, after Office for National Statistics figures revealed the size of the market for the first time.

Fidelity could implement ‘save more tomorrow' for its clients after auto-enrolment.

In the latest Pensions Conjecture our panellists discussed DC and Auto-enrolment.

Standard Life has increased the number of members of its schemes to 1.16m over Q1, up from 1.09m in the first quarter of 2011.

AllianceBernstein has designed a capped drawdown product it says will give pensioners "breathing space" before they buy an annuity.

A leading independent trustee has warned the structure of current defined contribution schemes will lead to social unrest.

Employers can increase the value of their employees' pension pots by up to 40% purely through better governance, without upping their contributions, JLT Benefit Solutions research has claimed.