Auto-enrolment

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).

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has amended regulations to provide alternative pay period definitions for assessing jobholder status and scheme quality.

This week Buzz reveals growing confidence in auto-enrolment (AE) but in the minds of respondents there is still a long way to go.

Capita Employee Benefits has appointed Jon Cooke to the newly-created position of head of technology sales to lead the sales and development of its portal and software.

Unsurprisingly, a lot of respondents focused on low opt-out rates as the short-term measure of success for AE, and decent retirement incomes as the long-term goal. On this basis, many contributors said the first year of AE could be deemed a success.

It was a similar story on how the industry thinks The Pensions Regulator (TPR) will fare when the number of employers staging really takes off next year. The percentage of contributors who think the watchdog will be unable to cope fell from 55% 12 months...