Opinion

I now have only a little over one day left to choose my benefits under our company's salary exchange-based flexible benefits package.

As coming of ages go, defined contribution has had one of the longest ever. The retirement vehicle has had, to say the least, a protracted and troubled adolescence as trustees and employers have largely focused on the risk posed by legacy defined benefit...

It is clear that human beings are far from the ideal of homo economicus. Indeed, we make non-optimal choices all the time.

So, Lawrence Churchill is to leave the Pension Protection Fund to become the first chairman of NEST Corporation, the rather shadowy sounding body that will run the National Employment Savings Trust.

The warnings have been coming for some time.

It has been a while since I have been able to contribute a Beveridge report to PP and I have a number of decent excuses. The best one is that I have become liable for a wonderful, but completely unfunded, liability called Henry Beveridge who was born...

January 13 was St Hilary's Day and, according to folklore, is reputed to be the coldest day of the year.

Welcome to your New Year crisis! Just before Christmas, when all good folk were doing their bit to boost the UK economy with a bout of intensive retail therapy, two ratings agencies downgraded the rating of Greece's sovereign debt.

2009 seems to have been a long year in the world of pensions - and a year many will, no doubt, be glad is over.

The make up of DC default funds has been a big issue during the course of 2009. While we would like to think that, with the right education people will feel confident making investment decisions, the fact remains that many do not. As a result the vast...