Standard Life

In the second part of our run-down of the most read Professional Pensions Online articles in 2011, we look at the top 20 news stories during the year - starting with those in eleventh to twentieth place.

Standard Life has teamed up with Vanguard to incorporate 12 of the US-based asset manager's funds into its pension platform for savers and investors.

MPs have questioned the role of the National Employment Savings Trust since other master trust pension schemes have entered the market.

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

Industry gets behind PP call to arms on decent defaults

Professional Pensions has launched a Campaign for Better DC Default Options in a bid to raise awareness of best practice in defined contribution default design.

Insurers are split over how the industry should tackle the issue of "unfair" active member discounts, PP can reveal.

Active membership of occupational schemes has fallen to its lowest level in almost 60 years, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Publisher Emap has completed the wind-up of its 6,000 member Flexiplan defined contribution pension scheme with a £140m buyout.

Legislation curtailing pension charges for deferred members has been announced by pensions minister Steve Webb.