The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association has indicated its intention to "broaden and deepen" its relationships with members.

Speaking at the PLSA Annual Conference , the new PLSA chair Richard Butcher explained the association's aims to open up the organisation to its members.

Butcher noted that the PLSA plans to encourage greater amounts of member engagement with its policy making.

"The team will accept, as a mission, speaking to at least five members who are not on councils whenever they produce policy argument," the new chair said.

In addition to this, the other two key areas that the PLSA will focus on to broaden member relationships will be a series of road trips to gauge an understanding of members' opinions on new policy, as well as plans to "take more policy online", Butcher said.

In order to achieve this, the PLSA will be launching an online platform called Pensions Lab to enable broader communications with members on policy areas and consultations.

Butcher also highlighted the PLSA's Hitting the Target paper which sets out a "bold set of policies", focusing on: broadening auto-enrolment in terms of getting more people saving and deepening the scope of contributions, calling for the industry to help people to establish longer working lives, improving scheme governance and more member engagement.

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