Defined Contribution

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.

Sponsors should treat pension schemes as a subsidiary of their business to tackle the mounting burden of closed defined benefit schemes, a report argues.

Lobby warns that retrospective legislation could ruin development of collective defined contribution

About one third of employees will opt out of pensions when auto-enrolment comes into force after 2012, Legal & General says.