Defined Contribution

Friends Provident is launching a new corporate investment platform aimed at employee benefit consultants and trustees in the unbundled pensions market.

Courtaulds has been awarded the National Association of Pension Funds' pension quality mark for its defined contribution group personal pension scheme.

One-third of defined contribution schemes changed their investment strategies in the past year, Towers Watson's annual FTSE 100 DC survey reveals.

A quarter of employers say their employees are cutting or suspending pension contributions because of the financial downturn, latest research from Punter Southall reveals.

The National Association of Pension Funds has called on the occupational pensions industry to establish super trusts which it says would add 30% to members' pension pots.

The scheme order and rules for NEST have been laid before parliament by the secretary of state for work and pensions.

The National Employment Savings Trusts' 2% contribution charge will be levied for 20 years, the pensions minister says.

HM Treasury has trebled its estimate of the one-off costs that pension schemes, employers and individuals will incur as a result of the tax on higher earners' pension contributions it is introducing from 2011, Towers Watson says.

UK - Ignis Asset Management is encouraging industry leaders and politicians to debate hybrid schemes.

Ignis Asset Management is encouraging industry leaders and politicians to debate hybrid schemes.