Defined Contribution

The Financial Services Authority fears advisers and employee benefit consultations will switch group personal pensions around the market to continue receiving commission.

The UK's combined defined contribution pension savings have rebounded by more than £103bn since this time last year, Aon Consulting says.

Retirees who shop around are 50-times more likely to get an enhanced annuity than those who stay with their pension provider, a lobby group claims.

Industry veteran Richard Stroud is to quit as a volunteer adviser with The Pensions Advisory Service amid claims of ageism at the department for work and pensions.

Dear Sirs, I have decided to write this open letter after a great deal of consideration as well as with much regret.

If you would like to participate in the 2010 cycle of the PensionDCisions Sponsor Survey - published in association with Professional Pensions - now is your last chance to be involved.

Advice on group personal pensions should be paid for on a fee basis, even if employees receive no individual advice, the Financial Services Authority says.

International law firms Lovells and Hogan & Hartson are to merge.

Kellogg's Pension Fund's Tom Stevenson recently retired from his post as pensions manager. Before he left Sebastian Cheek asked him what the scheme had done to be awarded the NAPF's Pension Quality Mark

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