All Auto-enrolment articles – Page 40
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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
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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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.
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Opinion
Edinburgh: AE has raised employee awareness
Auto-enrolment has been less painful than expected for the pensions team at the University of Edinburgh.
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News
Investment peaks as schemes buy cheaper gilts
News analysis: UK pension funds hit a record of £17bn of net investments during the second quarter, largely as a result of schemes taking advantage of lower bond prices, according to data from the Office for National Statistics.
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Opinion
How SMEs can deal with a capacity squeeze
Despite regulators and advisers all compelling smaller companies to take early action, many may have left it too late to bag the industry’s best AE providers.
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News
High AE engagement from young not enough, industry says
News analysis: Young people have been more accepting of auto-enrolment than their older colleagues, official data have shown, but industry figures have warned against complacency over retirement saving.
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Opinion
A scheme guide to AE contribution requirements
Anne-Marie Winton, partner at law firm Nabarro, works step by step through the auto-enrolment contribution requirements, in the latest Technical View.
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News
Whitbread: spike in non-eligible employees saving after AE
Whitbread has seen an increase in the number of employees that were not eligible for auto-enrolment joining its pension scheme since it began communicating the reform.
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News
Local govt funds swap 'Care' title to explain reform
Local government pension schemes have decided to use ‘account’ rather than Care when communicating their reformed scheme structure to avoid negative associations.