Auto-enrolment

The biggest barrier to companies using the National Employment Savings Trust is the perception that it will be difficult to brand as a "valuable employee benefit", says Towers Watson.

Pension hub provider Money on Toast has created a tool that allows workers to learn about auto-enrolment via Facebook.

Aviva has launched its auto-enrolment solution to help employers manager their on-going pension responsibilities.

Just 6% of Britons know they are going to be auto-enrolled while more than a quarter have not been told yet, Friends Life says.

Auto-enrolment could increase employers' payroll costs by 10% according to research from Eversheds.

Auto-enrolment will bring more than half a million more people into workplace pensions by Christmas, according to the Department for Work and Pensions.

Taha Lokhandwala on the mammoth communication exercise of preparing employees for auto-enrolment

Scottish Widows has launched an auto-enrolment platform.

The Department for Work and Pensions will be among the larger employers entering auto-enrolment this autumn.

Workers who are auto-enrolled into schemes risk losing out on £10,000 in contributions over the next ten years, compared with colleagues who join voluntarily, argues Fidelity Worldwide Investment.