Auto-enrolment

Paul Budgen says many of the smaller providers with less resource and funding will not make it through the costly and time-consuming months ahead

It has again been suggested self-employed workers could enjoy pension provision through the tax return process. James Phillips explores the latest proposals

Bus company Stotts Tours (Oldham) faces the prospect of losing its operating licence after deliberately failing to enrol its eligible workers into a pension scheme.

Smart Pension is to launch a smartphone application with animated financial illustrations, which will allow savers to change their contributions and investments with just a tap on a screen.

Half of millennials were saving into a pension in 2016 but the overall total of their savings has dropped, according to analysis.

The majority of employees will stay opted into their automatic enrolment (AE) scheme despite their pension contributions tripling, Now Pensions research finds.

One in five automatically-enrolled members will benefit from generous employers who will pay more than their minimum 2% pension contributions, a survey by The People's Pension reveals.

The new tax year brings a number of changes to the pensions world, not least the first round of phasing for auto-enrolled employees.

The Work and Pensions Committee has called for the government to introduce an auto-drawdown option while allowing NEST to offer decumulation products, James Phillips reports

Savers feel positive about the upcoming rise in auto-enrolment (AE) contributions, according to data from the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST).