Auto-enrolment

Pension PlayPen has launched a free comparison tool to rate and compare quotes from all the main pension providers.

Friends Life added £6m of new corporate benefits business between July and September and says in its interim results that it aims to add £6m more in Q4.

The Tax Incentivised Savings Association (TISA) Exchange (Tex) has launched a contract club of transfer providers to cut pension transfer times to no longer than six working days.

Barclays Corporate & Employer Solutions (C&ES) has unveiled its DC platform investment solution and launched a defined contribution (DC) consultancy practice.

Aon Hewitt has launched an auto-enrolment (AE) solution in partnership with Zurich, offering a 0.5% annual management charge (AMC) for its default fund.

Aegon has announced an increase in fund charges on some of the insured funds on its savings platform Aegon Retirement Choices (ARC).

This week respondents backed calls for The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to run a register of charges and for Local Government Pension Schemes (LGPS) to be merged, but said there is no role for paternalism in auto-enrolment (AE).

More than four out of five respondents said employers had no moral obligation to persuade staff to participate in a scheme once they had been auto-enrolled and had opted out.

Naomi Rainey examines the government's proposals

Naomi Rainey looks at the industry’s response to the DWP charge cap consultation