All member engagement articles – Page 24
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News
Civil service schemes centralise admin to boost engagement
The civil service pension schemes are moving the administration of their active, deferred and pensioner members to a single system to reduce costs and increase member engagement.
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OpinionThe DC Debate – ensuring value for new savers in 2014
This quarter’s DC debate focuses on how to strike the best risk and return balance for defined contribution savers in a fragile but recovering global economy.
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OCS uses postponement to manage AE risks, sees 10% opt-out
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.
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Report calls for greater transparency on costs
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.
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IBM portal gets 5,000 sign-ups as scheme goes paperless
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.
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WMPF portal drives 19% increase in web engagement
West Midlands Pension Fund has seen a substantial increase in traffic to its website following the launch of an online portal providing scheme information to members and employers.
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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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News
Members need push to use scheme calculators
The use of pension charges calculators to inform members has become the norm for pension funds, industry experts say, but member engagement is still low.
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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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FeaturesCo-op battles 95% apathy with tiered AE scheme
The Co-operative Group has managed its risk of employee disengagement from auto-enrolment by introducing a tiered scheme that mixes defined contribution and career average to suit members' needs.
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Features
DC schemes harness apathy to drive up contributions
Defined contribution (DC) schemes are increasing members' retirement savings by using a combination of apathy and education to ensure high levels of contributions.
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Features
Bank scheme lifts contributions through age profiling
Ian Smith explores how the National Australia Group defined contribution (DC) plan and others are improving their communication through direct engagement with employees.