In the latest Pensions Conjecture our panellists discussed DC and Auto-enrolment.
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs has revealed it will amend its salary sacrifice rules to prevent unfairly penalising employees who opt out of auto-enrolment salary sacrifice pension schemes.
Members of workplace pension schemes run by Friends Life increased by 4% between 2010 and 2011, the insurer said.
Resolution is preparing a "self-managed" exit from Friends Life in 2014 that would see the company split between a fit for purpose life company and a closed life fund consolidator.
Friends Life has launched a customer panel made up of 500 members of its corporate pension schemes in a bid to further improve its service.
Friends Life has launched its corporate platform - offering a range of pension and savings accounts to employees and a management information system for employers.
The Pensions Ombudsman has found in favour of Friends Life after a consumer had complained it misled him about the nature of its treatment of additional voluntary contributions.