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Professional Pensions is holding a live Conjecture debate on auto-enrolment at 11am on 28 September.

TPR chief executive Bill Galvin tells PP what the industry needs to do ahead of the 2012 pension reforms.

The government are yet to develop a grand vision for pensions and should be prepared to resort to compulsion if auto-enrolment fails, delegates heard.

The next five to ten years will see a "sea level change" in employer benefit provision, according to Buck Consultants head of online and flex Dominic Holmes.

Pension funds are facing a dilemma in that de-risking is expensive and not getting cheaper so they should take on more risk in the current climate, delegates heard.

UK - The Pension Protection Fund has confirmed the levy estimate for 2012/13 will be £550m ($860m).

CHINA - Schroders head of Asia ex-Japan equities, Robin Parbrook, has poured scorn on returns made by investors in China in the last two decades, and warned the country still faces major challenges.

The Pension Protection Fund has confirmed the levy estimate for 2012/13 will be £550m.

AUSTRALIA - The superannuation industry has broadly welcomed the final details of the government's Stronger Super reforms, which it claims could result in a rise in member savings equivalent to a 1% increase in contributions.

Employers who provide information on lifetime allowance potential tax charges in light of auto-enrolment have nothing to fear from The Pensions Regulator, delegates heard.