Auto-enrolment

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.

Employers can increase the value of their employees' pension pots by up to 40% purely through better governance, without upping their contributions, JLT Benefit Solutions research has claimed.

Pension transfer providers believe The Pensions Regulator should issue guidance to trustees to simplify and speed up the process, according to a government report.

Confusing and contradictory communications could deter millions of part-time workers from saving into a pension under auto-enrolment, warns a consultant.

The industry may be gung-ho for auto-enrolment, but, Rachel Dalton asks, is the public on the same page?