Stock market turmoil this year has hit defined contribution pensions to the point where tens of thousands has been wiped off retirement incomes in a matter of months. If you are one of the 3.5 million or so people in a final salary pension scheme, you will be forgiven for feeling aggrieved at the amount [...]

Anyone watching the news last week would have seen the protests against government plans to make public sector workers work longer for their pensions. But how many private sector workers are flushing away their retirement dreams with inadequate defined contribution (DC) pensions? The papers this weekend were full of the increasing polarisation between the pension [...]