All Nest Insight articles
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OpinionNest Insight: Understanding the context of the Pensions Commission
The final edition of our ‘Dear Pensions Commission’ series sees Nest Insight’s Will Sandbrook explore the economic context of the relaunched Pensions Commission and how it may affect the commissioners’ approach to adequacy.
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NewsOne third of self-employed trial Nest members have ‘zero pots’
On the go: Around a third of self-employed Nest members in a Nest Insight savings trial have never made a contribution to their pension pot.
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NewsNest plans boardroom overhaul in diversity drive
Nest is recruiting for three new non-executive directors as it attempts to improve the diversity of its board, the master trust’s chair has told Pensions Expert.
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NewsNest Insight launches emergency savings trial
On the go: Nest Insight, the research arm of the Nest master trust, has launched an emergency savings trial with financial wellbeing provider Wagestream to examine employee financial resilience and the impact of different nudges to encourage people to save.
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NewsOmbudsman fines Bionica Systems £1,000 for ‘missing’ contributions
On the go: The Pensions Ombudsman has ordered Bionica Systems to pay missing contributions of £2,311.86 into an employee’s scheme, and a further £1,000 for the “serious distress” caused by the error.
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NewsNest and Sainsbury’s members shrug off LDI crisis
October’s market turmoil and the slump in UK government bonds did not trigger a spike in Nest members checking their defined contribution pots, the research arm of the government master trust has said.
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NewsOpperman moots abolishing member-nominated trustees
Pensions minister Guy Opperman has raised the possibility of scrapping member-nominated trustees, demanding a surge in professional trustees as part of his plans for consolidation in the defined contribution space.
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NewsOmbudsman orders employer to rectify incorrect contributions
On the go: The Pensions Ombudsman has ordered an employer to pay contributions into an employee’s Nest pension, more than three years after deductions had been made from his pay.
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NewsGovernment urged to allow Nest to offer drawdown
The government has been told to amend legislation to allow Nest members to drawdown their pension pot, as well as extending investment pathways to trust-based schemes — requests made as part of a response to its call for evidence on savers’ understanding of their pensions.
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NewsMPs back tax return solution for self-employed retirement savings
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Financial Resilience has thrown its weight behind using the tax system to help the self-employed save for retirement.
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NewsA third of firms paying minimum AE believe this is govt recommendation
One in three employers who offer the minimum auto-enrolment contribution of 3 per cent to their staff are doing so as they believe this is the government “recommendation”, new research has revealed.
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NewsSelf-assessment pension trials results expected in summer
On the go: The results of a trial to boost retirement savings for the self-employed, involving the existing self-assessment tax system, will be published in summer, a Treasury minister has revealed.
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NewsMajority of FTSE 100 execs overlook Opperman workplace savings appeal
Pensions minister Guy Opperman has said that more companies should offer payroll savings mechanisms to their employees.
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NewsNest Insight sidecar savings take-up lags interest
On the go: Ninety-eight per cent of people who think Nest Insight’s sidecar savings product would help them have not signed up to use it, the research unit has admitted.
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NewsMaster trusts call for AE rate increase with opting down option
Pension specialists are calling for the government to introduce an opting down option when setting the next auto-enrolment minimum rate increase as a way of protecting those on lower earnings.
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NewsIndustry split on auto-enrolment reform timetable
On the go: Experts are split on whether increasing auto-enrolment contributions to 12 per cent can be achieved by the end of the decade.
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NewsRailpen: Member engagement is vital for schemes’ ESG strategies
Engaging a member with their environmental, social and governance-invested savings can be difficult when they do not know what ESG is.
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NewsEngagement essential for schemes to turn the tide on plastic waste
The role pension schemes play in overcoming plastic pollution is multifaceted, and communicating it with members only adds another layer of complexity, experts warn.
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NewsMaster trusts and PPI launch new member database
On the go: Five master trusts, including Nest and Now Pensions, have announced a new research project in tandem with the Pensions Policy Institute.
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NewsNest Insight launches opt-out savings trial
On the go: The research arm of the government-backed master trust Nest has launched an ‘opt-out’ payroll savings approach that aims to help employees build up an emergency fund.