Abolition of contracting out 'contradictory and unnecessary'

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Government proposals to prevent the transfer of contracted-out benefits from final salary to money purchase schemes would be "contradictory, retrograde and unnecessary", Hargreaves Lansdown says.

Head of pensions research Tom McPhail said given the uncertainty of future defined benefit provision government plans to introduce a blanket ban on transferring out of final salary schemes is somet...

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