Auto-enrolment

Pension firms have been given a deadline of August 2023 to have data ready for the launch of pensions dashboards. The majority of firms will need to supply member data to the...

There is widespread ignorance and confusion about common acronyms used across the pension industry, with just 2 per cent of UK adults knowing what ‘ESG’ stood for.  Recent research showed that three...

Six out of 10 pension savers risk their savings ending up with the wrong person, as they have failed to update ‘expression of wish’ forms. Research by Hargreaves Lansdown found that only...

There has been no significant increase in the number of people opting out of workplace pensions this year, despite rising living costs. Latest figures from the Department of Work and Pensions show...

From real consolidation of master trusts (not simply conglomerating, with existing cost structures), to bringing global knowledge to the UK market, handling cyber security out of the box and scaling from zero...

There is an estimated £19.4bn invested in 'lost' workplace pensions according to latest research by Royal London.  Ahead of National Pension Tracing Day, on 30 October, the provider is urging consumer to...

As auto-enrolment passes its 10th birthday, we have an opportunity to look to the future and see the impact it is likely to have on future generations of retirees. Overall, we’re in...

A quarter of workers have no idea how much money they are currently paying into their workplace pension. The research by Standard Life highlights some confusion still around auto-enrolment, 10 years on...

Smart Pension has acquired Ensign Master Trust, its eighth acquisition since launch. The Ensign Master Trust has £158m in assets, and runs the workplace pensions for 5,100 members across 62 employers. It...

Ten years on from the launch of auto-enrolment and two decades from the Pensions Commission that shaped it, the world of workplace pensions has been transformed. Reducing means testing, raising the state...