Standard Life has launched a master trust arrangement as an extension of its trust-based bundled defined contribution offering with Pitmans Trustees as trustee.

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

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.

Schroders is aiming to make active management more available to defined contribution investors by adapting a performance-related fee structure for one of its long-running global equity funds.

The Office for National Statistics is in discussion with stakeholders about creating new indices to calculate benefit payments, including pensions.

Resolution has appointed Tim Tookey as chief financial officer of its UK life project, Friends Life.

UK/DENMARK - NOW Pensions, the new scheme to be launched by Danish group ATP early next year, has vowed to bring "highly competitive" charges to the UK market.

NOW Pensions, the new scheme to be launched by Danish group ATP early next year, has vowed to bring "highly competitive" charges to the UK market.

More than a third of employers have not considered the impact of auto-enrolment on temporary staff, despite agency worker rules coming into force next month, Allen & Overy says.

UK - Almost one in five pension schemes currently delegate investment decision making to a third-party provider, analysis shows.