All auto-enrolment articles – Page 37
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News
Tech SME: scheme and fee transparency crucial to AE
Technology company Fluidata has said simplicity and transparency of pension arrangements and fees are key to smaller employers navigating auto-enrolment successfully, as it struggled to see value in private providers.
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Features
SME achieves almost zero opt-outs after enrolling early
Chartered surveyor Dalcour Maclaren has secured a virtually entire take-up of its defined contribution plan since it auto-enrolled its small workforce last year, and now the company is looking to streamline administration of the scheme.
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Opinion
Webb: tide finally turning on retirement saving
Figures released last week from the Office for National Statistics indicate that after decades of decline, the tide is finally turning and people are embracing pension saving.
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News
The Cut – Four lessons from the latest ONS pensions data
The Office for National Statistics revealed last week auto-enrolment has so far boosted the proportion of employees that belong to a workplace pension to 50 per cent from 47 per cent.
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Features
SME says auto-enrolment a 'doddle', advice unnecessary
F2 Chemicals has become the latest employer to question the need for external advice and has offered staff a new defined contribution scheme paying in more than the statutory minimum, ahead of its 2015 staging date.
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Features
AE non-compliance expected to increase as SMEs stage
News analysis: Consultants have urged employers auto-enrolling this year to ensure they are dedicating enough resources to the process, with the Pensions Regulator raising concerns about non-compliance.
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NewsOnly a third of workers alerted to AE by employer
Data analysis: Nearly two-thirds of workers heard about auto-enrolment through the media rather than from their workplace, sparking concerns that employers are not playing a strong enough role in communicating the reform.
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Opinion
AE collaborations are a cop-out
Auto-enrolment collaborations such as those mentioned in Pensions Expert last month are a “neat fusion” according to Zurich’s Stephen Lefley.
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News
Hewden: simplicity crucial to managing auto-enrolment
Plant hire company Hewden has stressed simplicity was crucial to its auto-enrolment project, and questioned whether hiring a consultancy always provided value for money.
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News
Almshouse scheme doubles members in AE comms drive
Whiteley Pension Scheme has doubled its scheme membership in a ‘buy now while high contributions last’ approach to pre-staging communication that has become popular among schemes wanting to boost employee saving.
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News
Consultant-provider collaborations create AE quandary
News analysis: Employers and schemes approaching auto-enrolment face a unique governance challenge as consultants and providers club together to provide off-the-shelf products, with industry commentators raising questions on independence and cost.
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Opinion
Why auto-enrolment is only half the job
By the end of this decade the most significant change to our pension system in more than a hundred years will have been effected.
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NewsRSPB sees 17.5% opt-out in 'mixed' AE response
The bird protection charity RSPB has revealed a 17.5 per cent opt-out rate since auto-enrolment in November, as smaller organisations start to push up the proportion of workers declining workplace saving.
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Features
Plumbing scheme offers lower contribution rate to tempt employers
The Plumbing and Mechanical Services Industry Pension Scheme will offer a lower contribution scale to new employers joining the career average scheme, to help it compete with defined contribution arrangements.
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News
Compliance concerns prompt employers to rethink AE providers
News analysis: Some large employers are considering switching their auto-enrolment provider as their administration needs are not being met, fanning a growing secondary market.
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Opinion
Nest: the challenges we face in 2014
We have come a long way over the past year, with huge increases in both workers enrolled into Nest and employers signing up.
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News
Only seven in 10 DC members use the default
Data analysis: Fewer defined contribution members than expected are invested in default funds, new figures have shown, but experts anticipate this to increase as auto-enrolment continues to roll out.
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News
Less than a quarter of 2014 stagers ready for auto-enrolment
News analysis: Only 23 per cent of employers staging for auto-enrolment in the first half¹ of 2014 have confirmed their provider and completed everything necessary to be ready to comply, data has shown.
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News
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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News
Pensions regulatory gap 'unsatisfactory', DWP report says
News analysis: The regulatory gap between pensions and wider financial services needs addressing, a Department for Work and Pensions report has said, but ongoing reform is pushing the issue down the agenda.