Is your DC scheme of good quality? PQM provide the latest version of their standards document.

This document provides the preliminary results of the quantitative impact study (QIS) conducted by EIOPA on Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision (IORPs). EIOPA intends to publish the final report in mid 2013.

After what has felt for many like an eternity, auto enrolment has finally arrived. This whitepaper provides a checklist to ensure you are compliant with the new legislation.

Employers should ensure that their auto-enrolment projects allow for engaging with their pension provider at an early stage, to determine the services that they will provide and secure the resources that will support them.

Revisiting how defined contribution (DC) schemes communicate with members in a post auto-rolled world will be critical to counteracting the increased disengagement associated with automation.

By providing more transparency on fees, our survey can help management, members and trustees improve DC fund growth, resulting in larger pensions for members.

This report investigates attitudes to DB pension risk amongst the finance directors (FDs) and other senior leaders of some of the UK’s largest companies. The report also highlights that the impact of Quantitative Easing (QE) on the UK’s DB pension schemes is amongst FDs’ greatest concerns.

Just published, this white paper from the DWP sets out the government’s strategy for putting in place arrangements that result in the provision of high quality pension schemes people can trust and take confidence in.

In this guide, you will find everything you need to design your de-risking plan, to ensure it can accommodate positive and negative events in future and to decide how to structure your operational model to deliver on this plan. The aim is to be practical, so there are key questions to ask yourself

This biennial survey was conducted by the Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) in July/August 2012 for online completion by 4 August 2012 and was broadcast to 20,000 of the UK’s smaller firms with 250 or fewer employees, selected on a random basis. Responses were received from 541 firms. This