All Auto-enrolment articles – Page 40
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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.
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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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NewsInvestment 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
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
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
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.
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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
BofA scheme boosts member engagement to give greater retirement certainty
Bank of America Merrill Lynch UK Pension Plan has upped member engagement through online tools that enable workers to make changes to their pension plans, to give them greater certainty over their retirement income.
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News
How to close your scheme's comms gap
News analysis: Employers have been urged to better educate staff about their workplace pension plan, as new research has found more than a third of employees are still unaware of auto-enrolment.
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NewsCharity bears brunt of AE contributions
Action for Children has said it chose to place a greater burden on itself than employees when setting its auto-enrolment contribution levels, in a drive to create fairness.
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Opinion
Audits can speed up AE’s legal sign-off
Sackers’ Ferdinand Lovett proposes a four-stage audit so companies ensure they get the best from auto-enrolment legal advice.
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Opinion
Editorial: Freedom from want
The reaction to last week’s TUC report on state pension reform understandably focused on the results which, the union held, supported its claim that £144 a week would leave the “vast majority of people” worse off.