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REBA's Future of Pensions Research 2026 reveals where employers are focusing their efforts as they prepare for the Value for Money framework, decumulation duty, targeted support, dashboards, small-pot consolidation, and more.

Catch up on the latest pension insights before REBA’s Future of Pensions Summit 2026 as content editor Dawn Lewis rounds up key trends from REBA’s Associate Member research.

Ahead of REBA’s Future of Pensions Summit, content writer Gill Wadsworth looks back at the REBA Congress 2026 to draw on key insights into how to support pensions engagement. 

With UK pension schemes committing more capital to private markets, they’re increasingly focusing on the size and quality of the opportunity set. As allocations grow, the debate is turning naturally to the real-world investments that sit behind them. What do private assets for DC actually look like, and how are savers already gaining exposure to them?

Many workers approaching retirement do not have a clear understanding of what their pension will provide, raising concerns that they may be unprepared for the decisions they will face.

Performance fees for pension investments are not new, but their role in workplace pensions is evolving. As schemes increase their exposure to private assets, the focus is shifting from whether they exist to how they’re designed and disclosed.

The pensions industry has spent decades trying to solve the wrong problem.

Upcoming tax reforms may leave employees vulnerable, says Standard Life.

The pensions salary sacrifice cap may seem like a long way off, but it’s not too soon to prepare for what’s ahead and to understand how your peers plan to mitigate the impact.  

Fragmented working lives due to parenting, caring or simple career breaks, are challenging longstanding assumptions about workplace pensions. Laura Stewart Smith, head of pension engagement at Aviva, discusses the impact this is having on savings.

Today, pension saving is often far from linear – life happens. But what does that mean for retirement savings and what are employers doing to ensure employees save adequately? REBA’s roundtable event aimed to find out.