Last month marked 10 years since the start of automatic enrolment (AE). In that time, AE has changed hearts and minds about pensions.
Continue readingAE has come a long way, but we all have further to go
Automatic enrolment
A pension revolution, but more work to do
Automatic enrolment has led to an explosion in the number of people saving into a workplace pension.
Continue readingEmployers: Don’t neglect your automatic enrolment duties
As we steadily emerge from a tumultuous 18 months caused by the pandemic, we are now taking stock of our new normal and the challenges ahead.
Continue readingOur strategy to enhance and protect savers’ pensions
Today, I’m pleased to say we launch the strategy for our future, putting the saver at the heart of what we do, with a clear roadmap of how we will deliver effective change on the ground.
Continue readingThe success of automatic enrolment has been hard won – we cannot let COVID-19 set us back
While COVID-19 continues to have a huge impact on the way we live, socialise, shop, work and of course the way we run our businesses – it remains vital that we do not lose sight of the longer term.
Continue readingChanging the name of your business doesn’t change your auto enrolment duties
If you get married and change your name, those you owe money to don’t forget you. If you move house, your debts remain tied to your credit record.
10 million are in but there is still more to do
Reaching the incredible milestone of 10 million people newly saving or saving more into a pension is like reaching the summit of a mountain.
Master trust authorisation – to the starting blocks
A few years ago we started to stamp our feet about master trusts. As automatic enrolment successfully swept through businesses and more and more people were being put into workplace pensions, master trust schemes grew in popularity.
Pensions – we need good news as well as the bad and the ugly
No-one can claim that all is rosy in the pensions world. There are many things that could – and should – be done to make UK pensions better, simpler and more sustainable.
Master trust regulations: a welcome step to protect pension savers
Master trust authorisation is essential for the development of a safe and sustainable market of defined contribution (DC) schemes, and we’ve been pushing for it for some time.