NEST

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

The independent panel of experts tasked with assessing the viability of auto-enrolment and NEST has finished a run of seminars with stakeholders.

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

UK,CHILE - 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.

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

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

Jeannie Drake has stepped down as deputy chairman designate of NEST Corporation following her appointment as a Labour Peer.

UK - In his first print interview since being confirmed as pensions minister in the coalition government, Steve Webb talks to Tom Selby about the review of auto-enrolment, GMP equalisation and introducing a new Pensions Act.