Opinion

Respondents are highly in favour of merging the two central tax payments, despite the government having kicked the issue into the long grass after a consultation in 2011.

Respondents reserve judgement on the Office of Fair Trading's intervention in the DC value debate, but many believe it will have a negative effect or none at all.

Auto-enrolment will cause default investment strategies to become more risk-averse as thousands of new savers pour into schemes, say respondents.

Mark Wood explains why pensions, like diets, are too easily over-complicated.

It's been around a year since pensions minister Steve Webb first touted the idea of defined ambition and around two months since the DWP published its (somewhat wavy) DB-lite and DC-plus options, but it's all gone a bit quiet since.

Corporate benefit platforms do not significantly increase rates of saving, say respondents.

When talking about what caused the death of defined benefit pensions, the usual suspects always pop up. Soaring liabilities are generally considered to have dealt the fatal blow, but didn't act alone; at the very least, red tape acted as look out.

Latest NAPF figures show the rapid decline of private sector DB.

In the age of instant communications and wide-spread personal publishing, campaigns are easy to start. If you want to shout about something, a couple of tweets or a blog can get the message out there fast.

Every quarter, PP takes the industry's temperature on government performance in pensions in the previous six months, asking whether it has improved, stayed the same or got worse. Every quarter so far revealed the same poor result.