Pensions

The system allows employers to apply online in minutes without a wet signature. Scheme acceptance is then guaranteed once online documentation such as address and company registration number are verified, and implementation...

Last November the provider introduced ‘actively at work’ conditions excluding cover for employees off sick at the time cover commences. The provider says it will now ask employers which employees have had...

The employer, which is unnamed and which has a payroll unit of between 4,000 and 4,099 employees, is understood to have contacted the provider after finding part of its workforce had not...

Rowlands will be responsible for leading the  growth of Mercer’s 70 strong, dedicated DC and Savings team, including supporting its Mercer Workplace Savings proposition. Rowlands joins from Partnership Assurance where he was...

Enquiries by the regulator’s compliance and enforcement team have led to a series of informal actions, including 28 instances where instructions have been issued by telephone, email, letter or in person and...

The provider says it has already had some cases where employers who are existing clients have made their first contact in relation to auto-enrolment after their staging date has already taken place,...

The findings of the FCA’s thematic review will have surprised nobody remotely connected with the pensions industry. But its launch of a ‘significant’ competition study into the annuity market last monthIndustry  has...

Should intermediaries be getting into setting up their own auto-enrolment schemes? It is hard to read the tealeaves on this one. On the one hand we have pronouncements from Andrew Warwick-Thompson down...

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn no other way. This Mark Twain quote came to me when mulling over the vicious spat that broke...