All auto-enrolment articles – Page 38
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News
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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News
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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Features
Essex merges functions after admissions rise
Essex Pension Fund has combined its employer, investment and administration teams into a single structure to deal with an increased number of employers joining the scheme.
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News
Schemes told to offer annuity brokerage
News analysis: The shadow pensions minister has urged schemes to take a role in providing annuity brokering advice to ensure greater member purchasing power, but industry figures have raised concerns over how this could be implemented.
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News
Managers endorsing DC auto-escalation could face scheme tailoring challenge
News analysis: More than half of employers back auto-escalation schemes as a way to increase employee contributions, according to new research, but they may face challenges in tailoring contribution rates to members.
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News
Findel uses auto-enrolment to chisel down costs
Home retail and educational materials supplier Findel has overhauled its existing pension offering to generate savings that will help shoulder the costs of auto-enrolment.
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FeaturesManagers' examples on reducing risks from 2013
Year in review: Pension managers and trustees took a variety of measures to protect their members' benefits, Pensions Week reported over the past year, from more efficient administration software to covenant safeguards.
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News
Two-thirds of employers uneasy over pot-follows-member
News analysis: Around two-thirds of businesses are concerned at the complexity of the automatic transfer regime, while 70 per cent of managers are worried about the broader challenges of auto-enrolment compliance, a survey has found.
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News
Mid-sized charities heading towards 'poor' value AE
News analysis: More than half of small and medium-sized charities yet to auto-enrol have schemes with annual management charges greater than 0.5 per cent and face enrolling into “poor value” schemes, according to a report.
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FeaturesAvon fund upgrades software to reduce data risk
Avon Pension Fund has implemented a new software system to gather member information from employers in order to reduce the risk of errors, as it moves to fully electronic reporting.
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News
Housing group shoots for double contributions in scheme revamp
Shepherds Bush Housing Group are to make its defined contribution scheme the "centrepiece" of its staff benefits provision by mirroring the contributions standards set out by the Pension Quality Mark.
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Opinion
Mastertrust governance: the case for the defence
Letter: On November 5 you published an article written by Morten Nilsson of Now Pensions titled 'Why not all mastertrusts deserve the name'. It was fireworks day so I assume he was deliberately attempting to light a blue touch paper!
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Opinion
A scheme guide to AE exceptions and exemptions
The original auto-enrolment legislative regime only exempted two limited categories of jobholder.
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News
Industry split over capacity crunch severity for mid-sized employers
Fewer medium-sized employers will be turned away by their existing pension provider for auto-enrolment arrangements than their larger counterparts, according to one such provider, as experts disagree on how smaller companies will fare.
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Opinion
Why not all mastertrusts deserve the name
Trust and pensions are two words that have not always sat comfortably next to each other.
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Features
Care provider offers staff AE contribution reprieve
A social care provider is temporarily rolling its cash-in-lieu-of-pension contribution into its auto-enrolment structure, so employees will not have to pay anything in until 2018.
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Opinion
Editorial: On the threshing floor
Steve Webb has drawn a line in the sand. Or rather, three lines in the sand.
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News
Evaluating the government's technical AE changes
The technical changes to the regulations for implementing auto-enrolment released by the Department for Work and Pensions have received a mixed response from the industry.
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Opinion
How to bridge the retirement gender gap
News analysis: As long-term saving among women hits an all-time low, providers and advisers have urged schemes and the wider industry to cooperate in encouraging adequate retirement saving.
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Opinion
Five ways to retain your auto-enrolled members
What can be done to encourage those who have been auto-enrolled to stay in and engage with their pension schemes?