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This high-level industry debate - sponsored by Scottish Widows - discusses the future of pensions and looks at what can be done to encourage occupational provision and make existing schemes easier to administer as well as how to engage members and employees...

Forcing employers to pay into the existing stakeholder regime would mean a lower cost alternative to NEST could be implemented "tomorrow", a senior actuary says.

It has emerged that David Cameron has set up a "nudge unit" in the Cabinet Office to look at how to use behavioural economics and market signals to persuade citizens to behave in a more socially integrated way.

Government must press ahead with the 2012 reforms or risk a crisis of undersaving, the Confederation of British Industry says.

Dominic Fryer, manager of corporate strategy and risk at Friends Provident, explains why advisers should be encouraging the use of workplace savings platforms

NEST issue not cut and dried

UK - Two-fifths of larger employers are considering levelling down pension provision when auto-enrolment comes into force, Association of Consulting Actuaries research finds.

In the second report from our recent DC World Steering Group meeting the participants discuss the communications challenges the industry faces

PensionsBuzz is a weekly survey that monitors the attitudes and opinions of the industry.

The industry is underestimating the risk of NEST simply becoming a replacement for state benefits, the Association of Consulting Actuaries chairman says.