Catherine Howarth: Why AE is missing a trick with ESG
We have 9m more people saving off the back of inertia, but contribution rates are low and we need to get this generation saving more, and that means engaging people with their...
Auto-enrolment
In depth: The investment case for ESG
The number of fund managers pushing clients to embrace environmental, social and governance investing has increased in recent years. Asset managers claim that environmental factors like climate change, social factors such as...
PPI: How tax and NI changes will reduce AE increases
The paper argues that tax thresholds are the largest mitigating factor on take-home pay for a low earner. While April’s increase in auto-enrolment contributions for someone earning £15,000 will reduce take-home pay...
Half of employees unaware AE contributions are increasing
Research conducted across 3,000 respondents found that just 9 per cent are contributing the recommended 16 per cent of salary into their pensions yet 43 per cent think they will retire before the age...
Work and Pensions Committee calls for capped default drawdown, Nest retirement products and single dashboard
The Work and Pensions Committee has today published a report calling for all pension providers to offer a single default drawdown option and all schemes, including DB, to be required to give...
Your Workplace Pension wound up and absorbed by The People’s Pension
The merger was project managed by JLT Employee Benefits (JLT) and brings in over £5m a year in annual contributions to The People’s Pension, rising to over £10m following next week’s mandatory...
Widows launches master trust, group Sipp and benefits platform following Zurich integration
Widows says the new product suite will enable it to compete for the very largest schemes, as well as enabling intermediaries to build bespoke client investments or offer ready-made solutions for a...
Illegal opt-out firm in first TPR prosecution under Computer Misuse Act
TPR is prosecuting national recruitment firm Workchain Ltd, as well as its directors and some of its senior staff on the suspicion that they illegally opted employees out of their pension scheme....
Quarter of bosses don’t know AE contributions are increasing
A poll of 691 senior decision makers by Now: Pensions found 28 per cent did not know contributions are increasing, and 42 per cent were unaware of the scale of the increase....
Round table Pt2: VFM compared to what?
The checklist of factors a consultant or adviser must weigh up when deciding whether a scheme or provider is delivering value for money is a lengthy one. Is cheapest always best? Are...
