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The Pension Quality Mark has opened up its awards programme to schemes with flat rate charges and contribution charges ahead of auto-enrolment.

Asset managers must act now to take advantage of prolonged market volatility, a report says, after the study revealed growing investor appetite for more dynamic asset strategies.

The former boss of Kent Reliance Building Society has been appointed as interim director for defined contribution, governance and administration at The Pensions Regulator, PP can reveal.

Shadow pensions minister Gregg McClymont has questioned what the government's drive for ‘defined ambition' pensions "actually means".

The Pensions Regulator has published a list of key features that defined contribution schemes "need to be able to demonstrate" to show they will deliver good outcomes for savers.

Here it is: the 36 key features The Pensions Regulator believes will improve member outcomes in defined contribution schemes.

A money-back guarantee for defined contribution members would encourage people to save more, according to a paper being finalised by an Actuarial Profession working group.

More than half of the pensions industry feels that liability-driven investment techniques could be used for defined contribution schemes, Schroders research reveals.

Andrew Short focuses on how schemes can improve member outcomes by helping them make appropriate income choices.

Severn Trent has established a new defined contribution scheme which will replace the current DC and defined benefit plans by 2015.