DC & Auto-enrolment

Retail giant Kingfisher will auto-enrol all staff into its existing scheme in October, but with minimal contributions for low earners.

Hotelier Whitbread has decided against actively encouraging its 35,000 workforce to save, aside from providing auto-enrolment facts, following negative feedback from focus groups.

Sasha Butterworth, head of pensions at TLT Solicitors, who has early experience of auto-enrolment, talks to PW editor David Rowley.

When it's a DC 'investment'.

Large employers are waking up to the administrative cost of high auto-enrolment opt-out and developing innovative strategies to keep staff in schemes.

Just one in 50 trustees will use the National Employment Savings Trust (Nest) for their employees when they are auto-enrolled, a PW poll shows.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is in no mood to forgive end of tax year payment errors for high earners, experts have warned.

The government would be wrong to set a limit on charges for workplace pensions, but needs to do more to promote transparent prices, a senior MP has warned.

In April, a household-name employer will become the latest in just a handful of firms making contributions into an ISA for its employees.

Independent trustees have backed proposals for employers to provide financial advice for all members offered enhanced transfer value exercises (ETVs).