Association of Consulting Actuaries

The government must do much more to back employers who are prepared to offer quality private sector pension schemes, Association of Consulting Actuaries chairman Keith Barton says.

Although the buyout market is showing signs of recovery, Sebastian Cheek explains that its expense still forces many DB schemes to seek alternative ways of removing risk from their balance sheets

Dorothee Gnaedinger discusses a middle way between final salary and defined contribution schemes

UK - Some 87% of defined benefit pension schemes are closed to new entrants and 18% are close to future accrual, statistics from the Association of Consulting Actuaries revealed.

Some 87% of defined benefit pension schemes are closed to new entrants and 18% are close to future accrual, statistics from the Association of Consulting Actuaries reveal.