Call for more info as ONS reveals true size of DC market

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The Pensions Regulator has been urged to report on the workplace defined contribution market in greater detail, after Office for National Statistics figures revealed the size of the market for the first time.

The ONS report Pensions in the National Accounts, published at the end of April, put the value for the workplace DC market at £386bn compared with an estimated £1.34trn in defined benefit obligatio...

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