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BlackRock has hired the National Employment Savings Trust's Paul Gilbody as head of DC consultant relations in an effort to increase its footprint in the UK DC market.

UK - Large-scale, collective private sector schemes should be set up in competition to NEST - allowing companies to offer DC without running their own scheme, the incoming chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds says.

The Work and Pensions Committee has launched an inquiry into auto-enrolment and the National Employment Savings Trust.

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Mark Hyde Harrison, the chairman-elect of the National Association of Pension Funds, believes there is an issue of scale within the pensions industry and thinks we need to develop vehicles to ensure suitable scale and make sure member benefits are secured...

Jonathan Stapleton talks to the NAPF chairman-elect

Large-scale, collective private sector schemes should be set up in competition to NEST - allowing companies to offer DC without running their own scheme, the incoming chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds says.

Almost one third of the UK's largest companies are planning to use expensive and ill-suited pension provision to comply with employer duties, according to Hymans Robertson.

Employers cannot afford to ignore the global trend towards corporate wraps if they want to remain relevant to their work- force, Tor Financial managing director David Harris warns.

Winning over 20-somethings sceptical about contributing to a pension will be the key to ensuring auto-enrolment succeeds, Steve Webb says.