Auto-enrolment

The National Employment Savings Trust will allow employers to make scheme contributions using a debit card, a payment method most other providers shy away from.

About one third of employees will opt out of pensions when auto-enrolment comes into force after 2012, Legal & General says.

Punter Southall has launched a tool to assess the cost implications for employers still undecided on how best to implement auto-enrolment.

Complications associated with the changes to the contracting-out regime should trigger scheme sponsors into reviewing their benefits they want to offer, a consultant says.

Braced for impact: Employer's 2012 coping strategies

Two-thirds of employers with no pension scheme say they are unlikely to auto-enrol employees into the National Employment Savings Trust or a qualifying scheme, ACA research finds.

More than half of UK workers are totally unaware of sweeping pension reform coming into play next year, latest research shows.

Most large employers are still not properly prepared to meet the regulatory requirements of auto-enrolment, Standard Life research reveals.

DLA Piper's Tamara Calvert looks at issues covered in the DWP's auto-enrolment consultation.

The Pensions Regulator has contacted tens of thousands of independent financial advisers and accountants as part of its auto-enrolment education drive.