Auto-enrolment

Flexible benefit platforms and corporate wraps have been touted as key ways to engage employees with their pensions.

Professional Pensions is holding a live Conjecture debate on auto-enrolment at 11am on 28 September.

TPR chief executive Bill Galvin tells PP what the industry needs to do ahead of the 2012 pension reforms.

The government are yet to develop a grand vision for pensions and should be prepared to resort to compulsion if auto-enrolment fails, delegates heard.

The National Association of Pension Funds has urged politicians to address a record drop in public confidence in pensions or risk mass opt-outs from auto-enrolment.

Some employers might be reluctant to get on board with changes to employment legislation, particularly when it comes to pensions.

With just over a year to go before the largest employers begin auto-enrolling workers into pension schemes, companies need to be prepared, a provider says.

The Office of the Pensions Ombudsman would be unable to cope with the volume of complaints if auto-enrolment fails, says ombudsman Tony King.

The National Employment Savings Trust's transactional website promises to be as 'simple to use as eBay'.

ATP has announced the launch of an independent multi-employer trust to rival the National Employment Savings Trust, ahead of auto-enrolment next year.