NEST

The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) has picked Legal & General Investment Management to run two real estate mandates.

Labour has tabled an amendment to the Pensions Bill which would give The Pensions Regulator (TPR) the power to force trust-based defined contribution (DC) schemes to merge.

A third of small to medium sized employers (SMEs) will pay more than the auto-enrolment (AE) minimum contributions for at least some of their workers, government statistics show.

Naomi Rainey looks at McDonald’s' auto-enrolment journey

Naomi Rainey asks Whitbread Group, owner of Premier Inn and Costa Coffee, how it achieved its low AE opt-out rate

McDonalds has reported opt out rates of less than 2.5% after auto-enrolment (AE) staging.

The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) has more than doubled its membership figures within the last month, according to its latest figures.

The government should prescribe the method of charging for pension schemes for the industry, master trust provider B&CE says.

Contractually enrolling staff into a scheme does not relieve employers of their statutory auto-enrolment duties, consultants have warned.

Most workers auto-enrolled into a National Employment Savings Trust's (NEST) scheme are using electronic methods of opt out, according to the provider.