Auto-enrolment

The Department for Work and Pensions has published a consultation on proposed amendments to auto-enrolment legislation that will allow employers to use career average arrangements as qualifying schemes.

Barclays chairman Marcus Agius will apologise to shareholders; senior Conservatives call for drastic welfare cuts to boost business.

B&CE is set to finalise the governance of its auto-enrolment offering after overcoming complexities with its master trust structure.

Companies could be missing thousands of eligible workers out of their auto-enrolment plans because they wrongly believe they are classed as self-employed, consultants and a lawyer warn.

The Pensions Regulator and Department for Work and Pensions are launching a website to guide employers' communication to staff throughout the auto-enrolment process.

Auto-enrolment provides an opportunity to increase levels of ethical investment in UK schemes, says pensions minister Steve Webb.

Steve Webb has been talking about "defined ambition" since January, but when the pensions minister wrote about it in the Daily Telegraph last week he pushed the idea out of the pension industry and into the public eye.

A leading independent trustee has warned the structure of current defined contribution schemes will lead to social unrest.

Employers that see auto-enrolment as an opportunity to level down pension provision should be prepared for a surge in applications to join their existing schemes, a lawyer warns.

Insurance companies are failing to regularly monitor their asset managers, according to research by FairPensions.