RPI

This month the panellists discuss what they feel will be the key challenges facing scheme administrators during 2011

Accrued benefits for deferred occupational scheme members will have plummeted 20% by retirement if schemes use Consumer Price Index inflation to uprate benefits, research finds.

Changes to defined benefit indexation have saved FTSE100 schemes more than £15bn, Towers Watson estimates.

Regulatory focus on plugging scheme deficits quickly is "unhelpful" and could actually damage businesses and pension funds, Hymans Robertson warns.

Companies are expected to conduct more full buyouts this year due to an improvement in funding levels, consultants say.

The government published its Pensions Bill today, covering proposed changes to auto-enrolment.

Changes to the introduction of auto-enrolment will be deregulatory and reduce the burden on employers, pensions minister Steve Webb told MPs.

Paul Sweeting on the issues arising from the CPI switch

Pension Action Group members have begun a letter writing campaign over the RPI/CPI switch which will reduce their Financial Assistance Scheme payments.

Pension Action Group members have begun a letter writing campaign over the RPI/CPI switch which will reduce their Financial Assistance Scheme payments.