Investment

In February this year Babcock Iinternational announced it had selected Friends Provident to administer a single defined contribution scheme for those who did not have access to a defined benefit arrangement. Helen Morrissey talks to group pensions manager...

At the time of writing the Professional Pensions team was, like the rest of the industry, speculating as to the contents of George Osborne's emergency Budget.

The collective intake of breath has been almost audible as the pain of public sector belt tightening begins to seep through the economy. Some £6.25bn of initial cuts - £500m of which was reinvested - have been swiftly followed by £2bn in project cancellations....

BP directors will face "testing questions" from schemes in the wake of the firm's decision to suspend dividends for the remainder of the year, the National Association of Pension Funds says.

Each month DC World asks readers for their views. This month we ask: What legislation for DC pensions would you like to see the new coalition government introduce/remove? 

Do you think employers need to radically change how they deliver their employee benefits if they are to engage younger workers?

Schemes have a "laissez-faire" approach to companies' environmental risks, FairPensions claims.

Panellists discuss how shifting attitudes to default funds have affected DC schemes over the past year and what changes are ahead

Millions of people are basing their retirement planning on their occupational defined contribution pension scheme.

Bosses were ordered to keep up benefit payments to a long-serving former employee despite no pension documentation or contracts existing.