Defined Contribution

Professional Pensions held a Conjecture debate on auto-enrolment yesterday. If you missed it, you can click here to listen to the debate in full...

A glut of private sector competitors to the National Employment Savings Trust could have a negative long-term impact on savers, an actuary warns.

Defined contribution investment strategies must focus more on member outcomes and less on turning savers into investment experts to succeed during auto-enrolment, consultants say.

Pensions deficits have become more affordable to blue chip companies despite almost doubling in size this year to £70bn, research finds.

Johnson Fleming has launched a ‘nudge' communications service in a bid to provide individually targeted communications to defined contribution scheme members.

The average worker in a defined contribution pension scheme has lost £1,300 a year of future retirement income in the last six months, Alexander Forbes says.

The Pensions Trust has launched a defined contribution website for the administration of its Flexible Retirement Plan.

Defined contribution investors need to look at their portfolios from a risk perspective akin to defined benefit schemes, delegates heard.

Standard Life has launched a master trust arrangement as an extension of its trust-based bundled defined contribution offering with Pitmans Trustees as trustee.

Schroders is aiming to make active management more available to defined contribution investors by adapting a performance-related fee structure for one of its long-running global equity funds.