All Auto-enrolment articles – Page 40
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FeaturesAvon fund upgrades software to reduce data risk
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.
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News
Housing group shoots for double contributions in scheme revamp
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.
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Opinion
Mastertrust governance: the case for the defence
Letter: PTL’s Richard Butcher takes Now Pensions’ Morten Nilsson to task for his recent critique of mastertrust governance.
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Opinion
A scheme guide to AE exceptions and exemptions
In the latest edition of Technical View, Gordons’ Ruth Bamforth takes a trip through some of the exemptions and exceptions to employers’ obligation to auto-enrol their workers.
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News
Industry split over capacity crunch severity for mid-sized employers
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.
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Opinion
Why not all master trusts deserve the name
Now Pensions’ Morten Nilsson discusses the problems with insurer-backed master trusts, and how employers can stop themselves falling for false promises, in the latest edition of Informed Comment.
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Features
Care provider offers staff AE contribution reprieve
A social care provider is temporarily rolling its cash-in-lieu-of-pension contribution into its auto-enrolment structure, so employees will not have to pay anything in until 2018.
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Opinion
Editorial: On the threshing floor
Steve Webb has drawn a line in the sand. Or rather, three lines in the sand.
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News
Evaluating the government's technical AE changes
The technical changes to the regulations for implementing auto-enrolment released by the Department for Work and Pensions have received a mixed response from the industry.
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Opinion
How to bridge the retirement gender gap
News analysis: As long-term saving among women hits an all-time low, providers and advisers have urged schemes and the wider industry to cooperate in encouraging adequate retirement saving.
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Opinion
Five ways to retain your auto-enrolled members
Schemes can take five swift decisions that will help keep newly enrolled members in their workplace pension scheme, Towers Watson’s Rudi Smith argues in this edition of Technical View.
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Opinion
Editorial: Where is the AE contribution tipping point?
Pressure is growing on the minimum auto-enrolment contribution rates.
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Opinion
Bringing together providers to meet your AE duties
Nest’s Graham Vidler discusses how the scheme’s 1,000-plus employers are using it alongside other providers to meet their workplace duties, in the latest Technical View.
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NewsWarburtons sees 2.3% opt-out after comms drive
At just 2.3 per cent Warburtons has seen one of the lowest opt-out rates reported following a communications campaign that included personally contacting each employee that requested a form to leave the scheme.
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NewsTrinity Mirror keeps 'semi-passive' DGF default under review
Trinity Mirror Pension Plan has introduced a semi-passive diversified growth fund for its auto-enrolment default section, but said it plans to further explore possible changes to the set-up in the next few months.
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News
How Weight Watchers tackled AE demographic challenge
Weight Watchers UK has implemented a unified communication and administration strategy and changed its pension provider to overcome the challenges of delivering auto-enrolment to different employee demographics.
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Opinion
Why minimum AE contributions are not enough
Contributions will need to exceed the legislative minimum to achieve a suitable retirement, but that does not mean it should be raised, argues The People’s Pension’s Jamie Fiveash in this Informed Comment.
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News
Regulator refines website for SME auto-enrolment
The Pensions Regulator has revamped the auto-enrolment section of its website to help small to medium-sized enterprises implement the reform by adding step-by-step tools and drop-down information menus.
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News
Care UK sees 4% opt-out after comms barrage
Care UK has experienced an opt-out rate of just 3.8 per cent since implementing auto-enrolment in March, putting its success down to an intensive, multichannel communications strategy.
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Opinion
SMEs, auto-enrolment and keeping young people engaged
Almost a year after its introduction, auto-enrolment has been successful so far in getting young people into the savings habit.