Auto-enrolment

Robert Barksfield says schemes need to make sure their systems are ready to deal with re-enrolment

Small firms are still not clear about their auto enrolment (AE) responsibilities and are underestimating the costs, according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).

Lesley Titcomb outlines the challenges for the year ahead

Changes to workplace pensions are seen by independent financial advisers (IFAs) as their key growth opportunities for 2016 according to Aviva.

Malcolm McLean looks at what 2016 holds for the pensions industry.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has warned that some smaller employers will fall foul of auto-enrolment regulations because they are not giving themselves enough time to prepare.

Potential changes to pensions tax relief was ranked as the leading challenge to pensions in 2016 by a quarter of readers polled by Professional Pensions.

The government has kept the qualifying earnings band for auto-enrolment at £10,000, resisting calls to lower the trigger to get more people saving into a pension.

More people are on track with saving for retirement than at any point in the last two years, but the vast majority are still not putting away enough, research finds.

The Work and Pensions Committee has launched an inquiry into pensions automatic enrolment (AE).