National Employment Savings Trust

The National Employment Savings Trust could be retained despite a cull of over 177 quangos, a Cabinet Office document says.

The National Association of Pension Funds is backing auto-enrolment and NEST in the main but says the finer details around scheme-based certification need clarification.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has highlighted the need to develop a strong State pension to help people build up a decent level of retirement income. Speaking at the ABI Savings and Protection conference on 13 July the minister outlined his commitment...

The UK should look at the Chilean retirement system's multi-fund structure as it develops the default fund set-up for NEST, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development principal economist Pablo Antolin-Nicolas has said.

Following recent government announcements on annuity reform the issue of minimum income requirements has caused concern, as Sebastian Cheek reports

Auto-enrolment and the Nat­ional Employment Savings Trust must be simplified if either is to be a success, industry experts say.

The initial charges associated with the National Employment Savings Trust Corporation could be increased to help cover the £280m deficit incurred by the national scheme at launch, industry experts say.

Joseph C Antonellis, vice chairman of State Street Corporation, looks at the shift to defined benefit pensions

The European Commission has approved a government loan to cover the set-up costs for the National Employment Savings Trust.

The collective intake of breath has been almost audible as the pain of public sector belt tightening begins to seep through the economy. Some £6.25bn of initial cuts - £500m of which was reinvested - have been swiftly followed by £2bn in project cancellations....