defined contribution

The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has called for industry views on including standards for default investment funds in the criteria for awarding its Pension Quality Mark (PQM).

Buzz respondents were split as to whether defined contribution (DC) members were suffering as a result of the attention employers paid to defined benefit (DB) deficits.

Standard Life has added 135,000 employees to its corporate schemes, bringing total membership to 1.3 million.

Opt-out rates averaged around 9% in the first six months of auto-enrolment (AE), the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed.

Charles Amos explores why DB deficits are costing so much more than DC contributions

Natasha Browne asks whether TPR should define its aims

The Association of British Insurers' (ABI) opposition to defined ambition (DA) is "unfortunate" and "premature", Hogan Lovells head of pensions Jane Samsworth has said.

Standard Life and LEBC haven launched an auto-enrolment (AE) offering for small and medium-sized (SME) employers.

Low-paid female workers are missing out on workplace pensions, TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady has warned.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has launched 89 investigations into possible non-compliance with auto-enrolment (AE) duties by large employers.