Robin Hames

Expanding technology will help employers engage with their pension scheme as well as employees, delegates heard.

Defined contribution investment strategies must focus more on member outcomes and less on turning savers into investment experts to succeed during auto-enrolment, consultants say.

Employers taking on business transfers could be on the hook for unexpected life assurance benefits, thanks to a quirk in Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) regulations.

Pushing ahead with early access proposals would have risked greater dependency on the state pension and left schemes and providers in a "bureaucratic tangle", the National Association of Pension Funds says.

Employee benefit consultants will face a variety of problems if the government merges income tax and National Insurance, experts say.