Trustees: We already do better than Osborne's 'guidance guarantee'

Jenna Towler
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Many trust-based DC pension schemes already offer more than the ‘guidance guarantee' to their members and are worried about being forced to ‘dumb down' standards, according to the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF).

Richard Wilson, NAPF policy lead for DC pensions and investment, said a recent poll of trust-based schemes found more than half were worried about the time scale for implementation - currently sche...

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