Opinion

Government plans to ban transfers from contracted out DB schemes to either occupational DC schemes or personal pensions have thrown up a whole a host of implications for the industry, causing something of a furore.

Increasing longevity means we are all going to have to work for longer if we are to save enough to give us a comfortable retirement.

The spoils of conflict, or the laurels of success, go not necessarily to the strongest, but to the most adaptable.

The advent of the coalition government has certainly ushered in frantic times for the pensions industry.

My last report garnered a good few emails, not least of which those that suggested I cheer up because DB is not yet dead.

Association of Consulting Actuaries chairman Stuart Southall has hit the auto-enrolment nail on the head in this week's exclusive interview.

Reading my PP email on Monday, I noticed that Mercer's Chris Hull had come up with some valuable ideas on how to help solve the issue of public sector pensions.

Time is running out. That is the message from senior industry figures this week as we edge nearer 6 April 2011 - the government's target implementation date of tax relief restriction.

That the Confederation for British Industry is set to back the key principles behind auto-enrolment and NEST in its submission to the independent review body is telling indeed.

The decision to get rid of the default retirement age and allow people to work after the age of 65 if they want to is a noble aim.