Punter Southall

Yesterday, the Department for Work and Pensions published the revised timetable of staging dates for auto-enrolment. PP rounds up industry reaction and looks at how the changes will help larger as well as smaller employees.

The latest inflation figures will bring home the effect of the switch from RPI to CPI for scheme members as the gap between the two widens, warns an inflation expert.

In our end-of-year round-up we asked industry spokespeople to preview the year ahead in pensions.

Simon Davies has been appointed to head up Aon Hewitt's UK defined contribution consulting team in preparation for a boom in DC provision.

The European Commission plans to adopt a "holistic balance sheet" approach to scheme funding rules which will treat sponsor covenants as assets, a consultation reveals.

UK - Narrowing Consumer Prices Index and Retail Prices Index inflation will save schemes switching to CPI just 60p (94c) a week for each scheme member, according to figures.

Narrowing Consumer Prices Index and Retail Prices Index inflation will save schemes switching to CPI just 60p a week for each scheme member, according to figures.

Jonathan Stapleton on trustee codes of conduct

Companies with mid-to-late 2013 auto-enrolment staging dates will pose the biggest challenge to the pensions industry because of a "resource drain", according to Punter Southall.

Un-hedged pension schemes face a 20% increase in deficits if the Bank of England follows the US Federal Reserve's Operation Twist strategy, a consultant warns.