Defined Contribution

Islamic pension funds could move from being a "hygiene factor" to a mainstream option as auto-enrolment changes the pensions landscape, HSBC Global Asset Management argues.

Professional Pensions is set to publish its annual Guide to Consultants at the end of this month.

UK - The use of transition management within the defined contribution is set to grow as the move away from defined benefit provision continues, delegates at the Global Pensions Transition Management Forum heard.

DCisions and Friends Life have developed the Friends Life Workplace Savings Index to track the investment behaviour of more than 700,000 of its consumers.

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.