All Turner Commission articles
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NewsTorsten Bell: New pensions commission will not solve adequacy issues
Torsten Bell has said people who think a “technocratic” approach to solving adequacy issues were “in la-la land”, and argued that the government needed to make use of its strong majority.
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NewsMPs told AE contribution rates need to rise to 12%
On the go: Auto-enrolment contributions need to rise to 12 per cent of earnings from the current 8 per cent, but this change should not be rushed through, MPs have been told.
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News
SNP revives pensions commission in bill amendment
On the go: Two Scottish National party MPs have tabled an amendment to the pension schemes bill to set up a new pensions advisory commission.
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News
Successful reforms require Pensions Commission return
On the go: Pension reforms from the mid-2000s, such as the introduction of auto-enrolment, were only implemented successfully because of the Pensions Commission and its membership, research has found.
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News
Renewed calls for govt to set up pensions commission
On the go: Two think tanks are calling for the government to set up a new pensions commission, after it found cross-party support for such an initiative.
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News
Increased contributions vital to continue AE success story
The real tests of auto-enrolment are still to come, one of the architects of the initiative has warned, as an adequacy report found many defined contribution-reliant members of Generation X are already beyond auto-enrolment’s help.
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Opinion
Reviving the argument for an independent pension commission
In March Dame Anne Begg, the chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, said: “A new independent pensions commission is now needed to provide coherence in pensions policy, and to build public confidence and long-term stability in the system.”
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News
NAPF call for pension commission wins support, practical barriers remain
Industry experts have backed the National Association of Pension Funds’ call for a long-term plan to protect savers’ interests, but question the viability of extricating pensions from politics.