Scheme contributions

UK - Employer contributions to funded workplace pensions have risen by £16bn ($26bn) in just two years, as employee contributions plummeted by £3.5bn over the same period, figures show.

Travis Perkins has reported a £32m scheme surplus after making a one-off £35m contribution into the fund, introducing a contingent asset and capping pensionable salary increases at 3%.

Punch Taverns has made additional contributions of £9m into its Spirit and Pubmaster defined benefit schemes over the past six months.

UK - Scheme sponsors are likely to follow BT and bring forward contribution dates before the 2% reduction in corporation tax rate kicks in, experts believe.

The Kingfisher Group wiped £140m off its defined benefit schemes' combined deficit last year, due to asset returns and changes to discount rate and mortality assumptions.

The average worker saving into a defined contribution pension will be £10,000 a year worse off in retirement than those saving at the same rate in 2000, Alexander Forbes says.

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The Conservative chairman of the Local Government Association has attacked coalition plans to hike council worker pension contributions warning the move would lead to mass opt-outs.

UK - Members of mobile phone firm O2's final salary scheme have avoided the scheme closing by voting to increase their contributions from 6% to 10%.

Members of mobile phone firm O2's final salary scheme have avoided the scheme closing by voting to increase their contributions from 6% to 10%.