Opinion

Pensions policy in the UK is taking a far more dominant form, if you think about it. Yes, the state will provide less for retirement, with the introduction of the single-tier pension.

The Financial Services Authority's probe into the annuity market is long overdue and could be a welcome addition to the drive to ‘reinvigorate workplace pensions'.

Enrolling staff is only the first stage of workplace reforms.

Philip Sutton welcomes the PPF’s new contingent asset guidance

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.