All Auto-enrolment articles – Page 38

Opinion
Nest: the challenges we face in 2014

2014-02-04T00:00:00Z

We have come a long way over the past year, with huge increases in both workers enrolled into Nest and employers signing up.
News
Only seven in 10 DC members use the default

2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

Data analysis: Fewer defined contribution members than expected are invested in default funds, new figures have shown, but experts anticipate this to increase as auto-enrolment continues to roll out.
News
Less than a quarter of 2014 stagers ready for auto-enrolment

2014-01-29T00:00:00Z

News analysis: Only 23 per cent of employers staging for auto-enrolment in the first half¹ of 2014 have confirmed their provider and completed everything necessary to be ready to comply, data has shown.
News
OCS uses postponement to manage AE risks, sees 10% opt-out

2014-01-23T00:00:00Z

Facilities provider OCS Group profited from the statutory three-month auto-enrolment postponement to find solutions to its tricky work patterns and variable earnings, when it staged last year.
News
Pensions regulatory gap 'unsatisfactory', DWP report says

2014-01-17T00:00:00Z

News analysis: The regulatory gap between pensions and wider financial services needs addressing, a Department for Work and Pensions report has said, but ongoing reform is pushing the issue down the agenda.
News
Report calls for greater transparency on costs

2014-01-17T00:00:00Z

All costs extracted by default funds and schemes should be publicly disclosed via a central registry to promote transparency, the Pensions Institute at Cass Business School has urged.
News
IBM portal gets 5,000 sign-ups as scheme goes paperless

2014-01-17T00:00:00Z

More than 5,200 active employee members have signed up to IBM Pensions Trust’s online pensions management portal since it was launched in the middle of last year.
Features
Essex merges functions after admissions rise

2014-01-09T00:00:00Z

Essex Pension Fund has combined its employer, investment and administration teams into a single structure to deal with an increased number of employers joining the scheme.
News
Schemes told to offer annuity brokerage

2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

News analysis: The shadow pensions minister has urged schemes to take a role in providing annuity brokering advice to ensure greater member purchasing power, but industry figures have raised concerns over how this could be implemented.
News
Managers endorsing DC auto-escalation could face scheme tailoring challenge

2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

News analysis: More than half of employers back auto-escalation schemes as a way to increase employee contributions, according to new research, but they may face challenges in tailoring contribution rates to members.
News
Findel uses auto-enrolment to chisel down costs

2013-12-19T00:00:00Z

Home retail and educational materials supplier Findel has overhauled its existing pension offering to generate savings that will help shoulder the costs of auto-enrolment.
Features
Managers' examples on reducing risks from 2013

2013-12-17T00:00:00Z

Year in review: Pension managers and trustees took a variety of measures to protect their members' benefits, Pensions Week reported over the past year, from more efficient administration software to covenant safeguards.
News
Two-thirds of employers uneasy over pot-follows-member

2013-12-11T00:00:00Z

News analysis: Around two-thirds of businesses are concerned at the complexity of the automatic transfer regime, while 70 per cent of managers are worried about the broader challenges of auto-enrolment compliance, a survey has found.
News
Mid-sized charities heading towards 'poor' value AE

2013-11-21T00:00:00Z

News analysis: More than half of small and medium-sized charities yet to auto-enrol have schemes with annual management charges greater than 0.5 per cent and face enrolling into “poor value” schemes, according to a report.
Features
Avon fund upgrades software to reduce data risk

2013-11-13T00:00:00Z

Avon Pension Fund has implemented a new software system to gather member information from employers in order to reduce the risk of errors, as it moves to fully electronic reporting.
News
Housing group shoots for double contributions in scheme revamp

2013-11-12T00:00:00Z

Shepherds Bush Housing Group are to make its defined contribution scheme the "centrepiece" of its staff benefits provision by mirroring the contributions standards set out by the Pension Quality Mark.
Opinion
Mastertrust governance: the case for the defence

2013-11-12T00:00:00Z

Letter: PTL’s Richard Butcher takes Now Pensions’ Morten Nilsson to task for his recent critique of mastertrust governance.
Opinion
A scheme guide to AE exceptions and exemptions

2013-11-12T00:00:00Z

The original auto-enrolment legislative regime only exempted two limited categories of jobholder.
News
Industry split over capacity crunch severity for mid-sized employers

2013-11-07T00:00:00Z

Fewer medium-sized employers will be turned away by their existing pension provider for auto-enrolment arrangements than their larger counterparts, according to one such provider, as experts disagree on how smaller companies will fare.
Opinion
Why not all mastertrusts deserve the name

2013-11-04T00:00:00Z

Trust and pensions are two words that have not always sat comfortably next to each other.