Automatic enrolment – business as usual
Next month anyone setting up a business will need to consider automatic enrolment alongside all the other tasks associated with starting a new venture. Whether you’re opening a cafe, a hairdresser or...
View ArticleMaster 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. The success of automatic...
View ArticleBlowing the whistle on the secret pension offenders
They hide in plain sight, looking respectable to the outside world but denying their workers their legal rights. The managers who tell staff that they’ll have their pay cut if they join a pension...
View ArticlePensions – 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. No-one can claim that all is...
View ArticleDelivering on our pledge to change
For several months now, we have talked about our commitment to change as a regulator – to be clearer, quicker and tougher. We are now delivering on this commitment; we are already a very different...
View ArticleMaster 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...
View ArticleDC growth indicates automatic enrolment is starting to mature
The success of automatic enrolment means saving into a workplace pension is now the norm with nearly 10 million people newly saving for their retirement. But the influx of new memberships is starting...
View Article10 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. Ten million people – equal to the population of Sweden – are...
View ArticleChanging 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. It might seem obvious, then, that an employer that...
View ArticleThree little words are making us work better – for everyone
The power of three is celebrated around the world as a way of grabbing and holding people’s attention. Whether it be Julius Caesar’s Veni, Vidi, Vici, Tony Blair’s Education, Education, Education or...
View ArticleThe success of automatic enrolment has been hard won – we cannot let COVID-19...
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. It...
View ArticleHow can we help all savers get good pensions outcomes?
The world of pensions has changed. Britain’s pension savers are living longer and are more diverse. Richard Edes, The Pensions Regulator’s Interim Director of Strategy and Risk asks: What can be done...
View ArticleEmployers: 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. We, like all organisations, continue to contend with the...
View ArticleA pension revolution, but more work to do
Automatic enrolment has led to an explosion in the number of people saving into a workplace pension. Thanks to the combined efforts of government, the pensions industry and employers across the...
View ArticleHow can we help all savers get good pensions outcomes?
The world of pensions has changed. Britain’s pension savers are living longer and are more diverse. Richard Edes, The Pensions Regulator’s Interim Director of Strategy and Risk asks: What can be done...
View ArticleEmployers: 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. We, like all organisations, continue to contend with the...
View ArticleA pension revolution, but more work to do
Automatic enrolment has led to an explosion in the number of people saving into a workplace pension. Thanks to the combined efforts of government, the pensions industry and employers across the...
View ArticleAutomatic enrolment – business as usual
Next month anyone setting up a business will need to consider automatic enrolment alongside all the other tasks associated with starting a new venture. Whether you’re opening a cafe, a hairdresser or...
View ArticleMaster 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. The success of automatic...
View ArticlePensions – 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. No-one can claim that all is...
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