UK employers 'not pulling their weight' with AE contributions

Kim Kaveh
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UK employers are lagging behind in terms of the proportion of pension contributions they are providing to their staff, a study of worldwide defined contribution (DC) provision reveals.

While UK employers will offer on average 37.5% of the 8% total minimum contributions from 2019, under auto-enrolment (AE), this is considerably lower than those provided to employees across the glo...

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