Auto-enrolment

HSBC Workplace Retirement Services has appointed Mark Winstanley as a senior client relationship manager.

Independent pension consultant Malcolm McLean praises the government for its progress on simplifying the state pension, but calls for a contingency plan should auto-enrolment fail.

Here it is. PP rounds up some of the top stories from the Professional Pensions Show 2011.

Large firms still have time to start auto-enrolment preparation but it must begin before Christmas, delegates heard.

Employers should see the upgrades to systems and processes required for auto-enrolment as an opportunity to improve pensions communications, the conference heard.

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.