Small defined contribution schemes may find it difficult to comply with the key quality features and governance code proposed by the Pensions Regulator yesterday, industry figures have said.
DC is 'dreadful', Labour peer Lord Filkin tells Webb
| 10 January 2013Pensions minister Steve Webb was told defined contribution was an "awful" system that the government and industry must "urgently" work on, during a House of Lords select committee meeting yesterday.
How employers handled the advent of auto-enrolment
| 28 December 2012Round-up: Hurdles faced by employers implementing auto-enrolment in 2012.
What the unions targeted throughout the year
| 27 December 2012Round-up: In the past 12 months the unions have expressed strong views on a range of subjects including auto-enrolment, the Local Government Pension Scheme and deferred membership.
Strathclyde: Smaller employers not started AE changes
| 17 December 2012Smaller employers within the Strathclyde Pension Fund have not yet started syncing their pension arrangements with auto-enrolment requirements ahead of their 2015-16 staging dates, its data gathering exercise has found.
Ladbrokes takes punt on mastertrust design for auto-enrolment
| 17 December 2012Ladbrokes has chosen a mastertrust, which it sees as a low-cost and accessible scheme design, to auto-enrol 14,000 eligible employees from next March.
Regulator: 'significant progress' from payroll providers
| 12 December 2012Payroll providers have made significant gains in auto-enrolment readiness in recent weeks, the Pensions Regulator has said, but employers still need to make sure their needs are being met.
Plumbing scheme offers employers DA-style auto-enrolment
| 10 December 2012One of the UK’s largest industry-wide schemes will offer employers a career average benefit for auto-enrolment, which it says embodies defined ambition by giving certainty in retirement and cost-effective administration.
Pensions committee MP: defined ambition plans 'not clear'
| 03 December 2012Plans for defined ambition are still not clear enough, despite the government's recent publication of a long-awaited paper into the idea, a select committee MP has said.
Mastertrust woe at small pot transfer costs
| 03 December 2012Mastertrust providers have voiced their fears of an unsustainable increase in costs if the government’s plan for small pension pot consolidation goes ahead.
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pensionsweek: Small DC schemes to struggle with new regulatory regime http://t.co/2xT46rVA #pensions
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pensionsweek: RT @TPRgovuk: Press release: Pensions automatic enrolment: setting the standard for DC schemes http://t.co/aoH4T4kh
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pensionsweek: The regulator's drive to improve (trust-based) DC announced hours after Labour peer hauls the system over the coals http://t.co/1D75BMWj
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pensionsweek: DC is 'dreadful', Labour peer Lord Filkin tells Webb http://t.co/1D75BMWj
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pensionsweek: Are pensioner buy-in deals fair for the rest of your scheme membership? The panel discusses http://t.co/o27lFTrS #jointhedebate