Standard Life

Standard Life's operating profit before tax increased by 7% to £425m last year, boosted by the uptick in markets and an increase in corporate pension scheme clients.

Standard Life has announced computer giant IBM as the first client for its corporate wrap platform.

Auto-enrolment legislation should be tweaked so employers do not have to enrol staff who have enhanced protection rights, Standard Life says.

Employees miss out on an average of £1,272 every year because they fail to join company pension schemes, Standard Life says.

Social media is a fantastic way to get people online and interested in their pensions, Standard Life says.

Standard Life self-invested personal pension and group SIPP customers can now invest directly in gold bullion.

Mercer has signed up three of the UK's biggest corporate benefit providers to launch a corporate wrap platform to meet the rapidly changing market place.

The Department for Work and Pensions is to take action to stop firms using differences between defined contribution regulations to cut scheme costs when faced with auto-enrolment.

A third of employers say abolition of the default retirement age will prompt them to better promote their company pension scheme, Hargreaves Lansdown says.

The latest Pensions Bill has failed to address differences between contribution refunds in trust-based and contract-based schemes, providers say.