Defined Contribution

An employer auto-enrolling its staff at the end of November was forced to reverse its payroll after a Scottish Widows error led to last-minute changes in its fee structure.

Standard Life has announced an alliance with Broadstone Corporate Benefits to deliver packaged auto-enrolment (AE) services to small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Auto-enrolment (AE), the rise of defined contribution (DC) schemes and increased focus on improving annuities will put savers at the heart of pensions in 2014, Fidelity says.

Jack Jones looks at the findings from the CBI’s biennial pensions survey

The Financial Services Consumer Panel (FSCP) has urged the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to create requirements for employers and trustees of workplace schemes to provide annuity services for members.

Legal & General (L&G) has auto-enrolled 525,000 members into schemes since October 2012.

Most respondents believe the majority of trust-based defined contribution (DC) schemes will struggle to demonstrate all the features in The Pensions Regulator's (TPR) DC code of practice.

Taha Lokhandwala examines Spence Johnson’s 40 predictions for the DC market

Rachel Dalton on Webb's use of Lloyds as an illustration of DA

The use of target date funds (TDFs) and outcome-orientated default strategies in workplace defined contribution (DC) schemes will eat away at lifestyle's hold on the market, research shows.