Auto-enrolment

The Department for Work and Pensions has announced that well-known business icons including Theo Paphitis and Karren Brady are among the celebrities to help promote auto-enrolment through an advertising campaign.

Aegon UK has launched its new workplace savings platform, Aegon Retirement Choices, and offered to pay 50% of employers' contributions for the first three months as an introductory offer.

Insurance group Admiral has boosted the membership of its scheme from 1,100 to 2,000 since March through a staff awareness campaign.

Last week the government gave the first indication of the numbers it is likely to use for the earnings trigger and qualifying earnings band for auto-enrolment for 2013/2014.

Jonathan Stapleton asks if pension saving is finally on the up

The Department for Work and Pensions is set to begin a widespread advertising push on September 17 using "trusted voices" in the media to gain public support for auto-enrolment.

Hannah Brenton on the tension between TPR and DWP

The Department for Work and Pensions has proposed to bring the auto-enrolment earnings thresholds into line with the personal tax limits for 2013/14.

Social housing repairs and maintenance provider Mears has chosen B&CE's master trust The People's Pension for its 13,000-strong workforce.

The Pensions Trust will launch a defined contribution multi-employer scheme for auto-enrolment later this year which specifically targets the UK's charity sector.