Auto-enrolment

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

The government should make saving into a workplace pension compulsory to avoid 11 million Britons retiring in poverty, says Policy Exchange.

Pensions minster Steve Webb has reiterated his commitment to implementing a cap on pension charges, saying "nothing has changed" as a result of responses to the official consultation.

Pensions minister Steve Webb's proposed cap on workplace pension charges has been delayed by up to a year, sparking demands for an explanation from the Opposition.

The government has proposed to give itself the power to put in place two options to ease the auto-enrolment (AE) qualification process for defined benefit (DB) schemes.