Defined Contribution

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.

Some employers might be reluctant to get on board with changes to employment legislation, particularly when it comes to pensions.

With just over a year to go before the largest employers begin auto-enrolling workers into pension schemes, companies need to be prepared, a provider says.

NOW Pensions, the new scheme to be launched by Danish group ATP early next year, has vowed to bring "highly competitive" charges to the UK market.