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Smaller UK employees are less than half as likely to create a new scheme for auto-enrolment as the earliest stagers, research shows.

McDonalds has defended its policy of auto enrolling serving staff at the minimum legal contribution level as necessary for minimising opt-out.

The Film Industry Pension Scheme will be extended to allow freelance journalists and other ‘media’ workers to become members.

The Pensions Regulator has not ruled out publishing a list of ‘pension liberation’ schemes it is concerned about.

The UK’s largest firms’ DC schemes have around a fifth of their assets outside of pure equity funds at the beginning of their growth phases.

Predicted graduate pay-freezes across UK sponsors risk undermining the government’s aim to encourage saving, experts have warned.

A relaxed approach to liquidity would make property a mainstream asset to UK DC schemes, according to a new report.

UK employers should include more flexi-time into their benefit packages for older workers, according to a US consultancy.

Automatic enrolment to workplace pension schemes with opt out, as is being implemented in the UK, has seen participation rates of about 90%, over 15 years in Mexico.

The UK has a higher proportion of people saving regularly into pension schemes than comparable nations, research shows.

Legal & General has employed the independent members of its master trust board to work with its nearly 2,000 contract-based DC schemes, as part of its investment oversight division.

UK pension savers expect to provide far less financial support to their families in retirement than their international counterparts, but are marginally less likely to ask for it.

Large UK DC funds should follow their continental counterparts in emulating DB schemes’ direct infrastructure investments, one such scheme has claimed.

Smaller companies will not be affected by the end of consultancy charging, according to HR professionals’ body the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development.

The ‘pensions liberation’ gang arrested in a series of dawn raids is suspected of syphoning off £500,000 worth of pension pots, police have revealed.

Low property yields have taken their toll, as UK pension funds’ investment in the asset class plummeted last year.

Risk adversity in DC savers is driving a move to offer diversified growth funds in plans’ accumulation stages, according to research.

The Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PIP) is aiming to move to a request for proposal (RfP) stage “shortly after” its 31 March deadline for Expressions of Interest (EOI) from investment managers announced today.

New rules introducing Employment Tribunal fees will deter a predicted spike in cases objecting to pay freezes connected to the cost of auto enrolment, lawyers are warning.

UK employers should actively seek assistance from the Pensions Regulator to avoid auto-enrolment non compliance, according to early auto enroller John Lewis.