All Auto-enrolment articles – Page 41
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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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News
Rentokil reports 4% opt-out rate in first AE wave
Rentokil Initial has revealed just 4 per cent of workers in its first auto-enrolment tranche have opted out since May, making it one of the lowest rates reported within the private sector.
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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.
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Opinion
Why we must fight to keep AE opt-outs low
Most employees of large companies are sticking with pensions. Morten Nilsson from Now Pensions comments on the scheme’s own low rates and why they are not the be-all and end-all, in the latest Informed Comment.
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NewsLaw firms poised for 2014 AE capacity crunch
An eightfold rise in the number of employers reaching their auto-enrolment staging date next year could leave many of them struggling to find the appropriate legal advice to complete the process, industry experts have said.
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News
Total reward model complementary to AE
Pensions experts have highlighted the effectiveness of a total reward model in giving employees a positive attitude towards pensions under auto-enrolment, revealed a report released today.
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Opinion
Editorial: Put fraud firmly in the shade
As the mercury rose last week, attention on pension fraudsters also hotted up as the regulator brought a liberation case to the High Court.
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Features
Essex reduces auto-enrolment costs with transitional delay
Essex County Council opted for a transitional delay to spread costs and reduce work ahead of its employers’ staging date, as a substantial proportion of workers were not scheme members.
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News
Derbyshire reduces auto-enrolment comms burden
Derbyshire County Council has taken steps to reduce its auto-enrolment communication costs, from record-cleansing to communicating through employers, as local authority schemes look to manage the cost of the reform.
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Opinion
Editorial: The metaphysics of quality
Last week, the government issued a call for evidence on quality standards in defined contribution schemes.
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News
How auto-enrolment exceptions help your scheme
News analysis: Exceptions to auto-enrolment regulations due next year will bring more flexibility to schemes, but may be too late to help those already enrolled.
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Opinion
Editorial: Time to review your auto-enrolment spend?
The spending review seems to have passed by without directly impacting workplace pension schemes.
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NewsTrinity Mirror sizes up target date fund default
Trinity Mirror is to launch a staff survey to find out whether target date funds are appropriate to all of its employees as the company approaches auto-enrolment.
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Opinion
Editorial: Informed debate
Over the past six months Pensions Week has been putting effort into driving online debate on the issues that regularly grace these pages.
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News
SPC: Pot-follows-member a 'breeding ground' for fraud
The government’s pot-follows-member proposals threaten to “overstretch” the industry and expose members to greater risk of pension liberation fraud, if introduced at the peak of auto-enrolment in 2014, the Society of Pension Consultants has warned.
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News
Now Pensions U-turns on sharia fund for members
Now Pensions has reversed its decision not to launch a sharia option, in its concern to avoid alienating members with a preference for Islamic investment, following auto-enrolment.
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News
Young people less likely to opt out, report confirms
Young people are more inclined to save for retirement than their older peers, experts have said, as a survey reveals that young employees are less likely to opt out of auto-enrolment.