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The UK pensions industry will see the emergence of more public sector defined contribution schemes in 2013, Fidelity predicts.

Corporate schemes must increase transparency and demand more responsible investing from their asset managers to keep pace with pension funds outside the UK, UKSIF says.

Bluefin chief executive Nick Burns talks to Jenna Towler about the revolution about to hit the corporate benefits industry and his predictions for the future of workplace saving

HSBC Workplace Retirement Services has linked up with corporate adviser Towergate Financial to provide group personal pensions tailored to small and medium sized businesses.

Scheme managers were pretty evenly split over whether the government should act to stop regulatory arbitrage between trust-based and contract-based defined contribution schemes.

Employee benefit consultants are finding it difficult to recommend the National Employment Savings Trust to clients because of its lack of track record.

Laws giving Scotland the power to set its own income tax will seriously undermine pension schemes, a consultant warns.

Transferring short service refunds into the National Employment Savings Trust would help level the playing field between contract and trust-based schemes, an expert says.

Michael Bow examines how ideas from defined benefit will continue in DC strategies

Fidelity does not currently see market demand for a corporate wrap to incorporate wider workplace savings vehicles other than ISAs and self-invested personal pensions, it says.