Defined Contribution

UK - The Conservatives voted against a batch of regulations governing auto-enrolment in a House of Commons committee yesterday.

BT's rivals have attacked the telecoms giant for seeking to charge customers to help plug its £8.8bn scheme deficit.

Electrical specialist Comet is the latest scheme to receive the National Association of Pension Funds pension quality mark.

Fujitsu workers have voted to accept a revised deal from bosses which will see their final salary scheme stay open for an extra year.

Prudential is to get rid of its dedicated defined contribution new business team putting nine jobs at risk.

UK - Prudential is to get rid of its dedicated defined contribution new business team putting nine jobs at risk.

FTSE100 employers are increasing average contributions to defined contribution schemes despite the economic downturn, Towers Watson says.

Sebastian Cheek speaks to Volkswagen Group pensions manager Roy Platten about how the scheme's communications strategy helped it acquire the NAPF Pension Quality Mark

Helen Morrissey talks to Paul Macro about the results of Towers Watson's FTSE 100 defined contribution pension scheme survey

The value of employer top-up contributions into self-administered pension funds dropped by almost half between 2006 and 2008, Office for National Statistics data reveals.