Analysis

Respondents said it was not up to schemes to push companies they invested in to pay staff the ‘living wage'.

The majority of contributors said that having completed The Pensions Regulator's (TPR) trustee toolkit was not in itself a guarantee of a trustee's competence.

The vast majority of contributors said there was a role for assets like property and infrastructure in defined contribution (DC) strategies.

The majority of respondents to this week's Buzz want the ban on consultancy charging in auto-enrolment (AE) schemes to be extended to cover all defined contribution (DC) schemes.

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Just over half this week's respondents said a merger of the Local Government Pension Schemes (LGPS) was feasible, while one in eight said the proposal was impractical.

More than four out of five respondents said employers had no moral obligation to persuade staff to participate in a scheme once they had been auto-enrolled and had opted out.