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How smaller employers can cope with auto-enrolment

Ian Bell of Baker Tilly sees two key battles before auto-enrolment launches.

Auto-enrolment provides an opportunity to increase levels of ethical investment in UK schemes, says pensions minister Steve Webb.

Steve Webb has been talking about "defined ambition" since January, but when the pensions minister wrote about it in the Daily Telegraph last week he pushed the idea out of the pension industry and into the public eye.

Royal London Asset Management has been appointed to run a bond mandate for the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST).

The National Employment Savings Trust has warned that any scheme given an obligation to act as a small pot aggregator should not pass the costs on to existing members.

The pensions industry has thrown its weight behind the creation of aggregator schemes to make Steve Webb's ‘operation big fat pension pot' a success.

The National Employment Savings Trust has finalised its opt-out process ahead of the introduction of auto-enrolment later this year.

The National Employment Savings Trust and Aegon have signed a formal agreement to offer an integrated auto-enrolment proposition.

Insurers have clashed with pension funds and worker organisations over MPs' call for the government to lift the restrictions on the National Employment Savings Trust.