Auto-enrolment

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Pensions minister Steve Webb has said the ban on individual transfers into the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) will be lifted before 2017.

The National Association of Pension Funds' (NAPF) call to increase auto-enrolment (AE) contributions is "deeply misguided", the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) says.

Research by the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) shows that while employers welcome auto-enrolment (AE) complex regulations prohibit them providing more than the minimum requirement.

The next government must "brave up" and start raising AE rates towards 12% to 15% to manage expectations of savers, Joanne Segars has said.

Hymans Roberts expects to have assessed 150,000 client employees by the end of the month as part of its guided outcomes service.

Public confidence in pensions has surged over the past year as 1.6 million people have been auto-enrolled, research from the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) shows.

NOW Pensions is preparing to split its trustee and commercial boards in order to improve governance.

The pensions minister Steve Webb will answer questions from Work and Pensions Select Committee on tackling pension liberation and equalising occupational pension rights for same-sex couples.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has focused hard on promoting a positive image auto-enrolment (AE).