Auto-enrolment

The Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) has appointed middleware software provider Staffcare to manage the auto-enrolment process across the group.

Preliminary results from this year's Professional Pensions DC Scheme Survey give some interesting insights on the industry's views on the success of auto-enrolment.

The Work and Pensions Committee has demanded the government bans member-borne consultancy charges on workplace pensions "without delay".

JLT Employee Benefits (JLTEB) has suspended consultancy charging on corporate schemes until the Department for Work and Pensions completes its investigation of the practice.

Workplace pensions governance should be overseen by a single regulatory body, the latest Work and Pensions Committee report says.

Standard Life has added over a £1bn worth of new business to its corporate pensions platform in the first quarter, outstripping sales for the last six months of 2012.

Providers have made preparations to deal with auto-enrolment’s busiest period. Rachel Dalton reports

Rachel Dalton on the latest hitch that could hit auto-enrolment

A quarter of respondents thought the Department of Work and Pensions proposals to allow defined benefit schemes to self-certify for auto-enrolment would be unworkable, while a third disagreed.

The Pensions Regulator has published its first update detailing the number of employers which have registered meeting their auto-enrolment duties, and indicates scheme membership has increased.