Auto-enrolment

Jack Jones says the right is shifting left on pensions

Two rightist institutions have proposed surprisingly liberal pension reforms. Ruth Gillbe reports

Pots follows member transfers will not be automatically triggered by a member moving jobs, pensions minister Steve Webb says.

E-commerce standards and services body Origo has extended its transfer facility Options Transfers to cover occupational schemes.

Around two thirds of employers who have auto-enrolled their staff found it "more difficult than they had anticipated", the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) says.

Staging for auto-enrolment (AE) will reach its highest level in the final quarter of 2016 with as many as 215,000 employers due to enrol their staff into a pension scheme, according to The Pensions Regulator (TPR).

Planned reforms for defined contribution (DC) charges, governance and transparency will not take effect before April 2015, pensions minister Steve Webb has confirmed.

Rachel Dalton rounds up reaction to the delay to the scheme charges cap

Regulation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has sparked increased demand for centralised investment propositions (CIPs), according to experts.

Natasha Browne says charges must be cleaned up to gain public trust