Defined Contribution

ISS UK has appointed Now:Pensions to provide an auto-enrolment scheme for its workforce from its staging date of January 2013.

The Royal Bank of Scotland has become the first UK company to auto-enrol its workforce under the government's requirements, with 40% of newly enrolled members choosing to opt out.

Jack Jones reflects on calls to merge TPR and the FSA

Less than half of all full-time workers are now saving into a workplace pension, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Listen to our latest Pensions Conjecture debate on Auto-enrolment.

The government must set mandatory requirements for defined contribution schemes says Hymans Robertson, after research revealed default funds were delivering poor value for members.

The government has been urged to consider merging The Pensions Regulator and Financial Services Authority after a National Audit Office report condemned the current system of DC regulation.

Government should use its powers to limit charges on schemes that qualify for auto-enrolment, says TUC.

Here are the 14 key findings from the National Audit Office's report on the regulation of defined contribution schemes.

Trustees are not engaged with default funds or charges, despite both issues being in the spotlight ahead of auto-enrolment's introduction later this year, the Pensions Regulator says.