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Respondents to this week's Pensions Buzz survey have asked Father Christmas for a government promise of no more pension regulations in the immediate future.

The majority of people that work in pension schemes expect at least four in five defined benefit (DB) funds to meet all of their obligations in full, according to research from PP.

Royal London and Johnson Fleming are among providers which have come top in the auto-enrolment (AE) rankings for 2015 produced by the Finance & Technology Research Centre (F&TRC).

NEST should be made the default auto-enrolment provider for small firms, according to a majority of respondents to Professional Pensions research.

Auto enrolment (AE) would be easier for small employers if the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) was the default provider and had been from the outset, says Mike Cherry.

Automatic enrolment (AE) has been more successful than expected yet the industry cannot be complacent says the National Audit Office (NAO).

Top stories this week included an interview with the pensions minister, worrying gaps in trustee knowledge and the news that some LGPS funds are paying asset managers 43 times more than others.

Legal & General (L&G) and the People's Pension have fully automated their systems for automatic enrolment (AE) using the data integration platform Pensionsync.

The success of auto-enrolment (AE) could be undermined by rising opt-out rates when minimum contributions increase in 2017 and 2018, the Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) has warned.

Now Pensions is consulting smaller employers on their auto-enrolment needs as the master trust looks to revamp its proposition in the new year.