Pensions Buzz

This week respondents support the ban on consultancy charging, endorse elected member-nominated trustees, and are equivocal on the benefits of collective defined contribution.

The majority of this week's respondents thought elected member-nominated trustees was the best way to constitute a board. Just over a quarter said that appointing member-nominated directors was a better a process.

Respondents were split down the middle over whether the government should make it easier for pensioners to release equity from their homes.

Buzz contributors were not wholly convinced that defined contribution members in the UK would benefit from moving to large scale collective saving.

Almost half of Buzz contributors think The Pensions Regulator managed to find the right balance between its competing obligations with its latest funding statement.

Two thirds of Buzz contributors rejected claims that the ban on consultancy charging was putting the success of auto-enrolment at risk. The Association of British Insurers (ABI) had claimed the measured threatened to derail the flagship policy.

This week respondents air doubts about DB-lite, back calls to give TPR more powers, and are unconcerned about the regulator's use of secondees.

Two out of five contributors think none of the Department for Work and Pensions' preferred options for defined benefit-lite will find favour with employers. Among those who thought some of the ideas might be taken up, the majority thought cash balance...

Almost half of Buzz contributors thought The Pensions Regulator needed more power to guard against pension liberation fraud. But, in a week when the City of London Police announced it had broken up a major pensions liberation scam, more than two out of...

Contributors were sceptical as to whether social media could provide information to improve scheme governance. Although more than three out of ten thought it unwise to ignore this data, almost half of contributors thought trustees should do just that....