Auto-enrolment

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.

Sainsbury's has announced it is consulting staff members on closing the company's defined benefit scheme to future accrual.

Tesco has seen its defined benefit deficit increase by more than £500m despite a bump in contributions after its triennial review, its final results show.

tax efficiency is not a priority for first-time savers, says Rachel Dalton

Taha Lokhandwala asks if AE will convince the lowest earners to save

Zurich has secured its first master trust client, with publisher Johnston Press signing up to the multi-employer auto-enrolment proposition.