Pensions Buzz

This week, Pensions Buzz respondents said the government was right to put back the charge cap to 2015.

The majority of Buzz respondents favoured keeping the lifetime allowance (LTA).

The majority of respondents were not in favour of making income drawdown the default option at retirement for defined contribution (DC) members.

Buzz respondents decisively rejected the idea of increasing the age threshold for auto-enrolment (AE).

Buzz respondents were generally supportive of the decision to delay the introduction of a charge cap on workplace defined contribution (DC) schemes.

This week we want your views on women in pensions. Are women adequately represented on trustee boards? Does this matter? Are quotas the answer?

This week Buzz respondents showed little enthusiasm for a regulatory review.

Nine out of 10 respondents said public sector schemes would still be with us in a decade, although the majority of those thought they would be significantly changed.

Buzz respondents were not generally against underfunded schemes pursuing liability driven investment (LDI) strategies.

There was only limited appetite from Buzz contributors for a government review of pensions regulation before 2015.