Auto-enrolment

The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) has launched a web chat tool to enable people with pension queries to speak to experts in real time.

Friends Life has released its consumer segmentation tool to businesses in a bid to help them better understand and target their employees when delivering corporate benefits packages.

Standard Life and Barnett Waddingham have announced a partnership to target small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for auto-enrolment (AE).

Administrator and investment platform provider Source Pensions has appointed Stephen Mason as UK administration manager.

One in seven workers has no idea when they will be able to retire, according to research from Barings Asset Management.

Contributors divided equally over the question of whether the pensions industry focused too much on the price of defined contribution (DC) products.

Source Pensions will target trade associations for auto-enrolment (AE) business, drawing their attention to the potential advantages of having a single scheme for their member firms.

The majority of respondents said The Pensions Regulator (TPR) was overstepping the mark in steering employers away from setting up master trusts if they would have fewer than 1,000 members.

The majority of contributors do not believe the earnings threshold for auto-enrolment should be reduced, despite concerns about the number of low-paid workers missing out.

Henry Tapper has faith in small employers to consider their AE options