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Regulate- don’t procrastinate; says Morten Nilsson- CEO of NOW Pensions
Membership numbers recently published by the big six mastertrusts highlight exactly how important they are in the auto enrolment market. Of the three million people auto enrolled, over two million...
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A buyers guide to auto-enrolment software
Some initial thoughts Auto-enrolment software exists to automate the processes your company needs to establish to stage and maintain auto-enrolment. For most employers it is another payroll headache...
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Will CDC be available to everyone with a DC pot – or just a lucky few?
A snag has emerged in the Drafting of the Pension Schemes Bill (that will introduce Defined Ambition and with it CDC). It’s one of those little things that seems easy to fix but which has potentially...
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One million employers buying pensions in the dark.
I am comfortable with the interventions by Government in the sales side of workplace pensions. The DWP’s minimum standards legislation is progressing well and we look forward to seeing some secondary...
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NOW – that’s what I call pensions!
Morten Nilsson – NOW CEO Why the Pension PlayPen supports NOW as a workplace pension It’s no easy thing starting a master trust from scratch. Though NOW Pensions, had the experience of running a...
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Crowd-sourcing a solution to the net-pay pension problem.
The people who are losing out on Government contributions into their workplace pensions because their schemes work on net pay rather than “relief at source” are oblivious of this problem, they serve...
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All at sea! TPR’s “Trafalgar” for maritime and offshore workers.
We should all be a little happier today with the news that the Pension Regulator has won its case against Fleet Maritime Services, meaning that many thousands of employees on overseas contracts will...
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Top 5 AE myths revealed – top blog from NOW pensions
Thanks to NOW Pensions for this healthy myth-buster - we'll be spreading the word so no-one gets left behind This year up to 500,000 small firms will have to comply with the new auto enrolment...
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“The best way forward or the NEST way forward?”
If you are an employer and you have made a decision, there is no liability—that is clear in the legislation. If you have decided to go with NEST rather than NOW: or People’s, there is no liability that...
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NOW – for something completely different.
Amid all the noise of auto-enrolment , one master trusts has put its head down and got on with mending a damaged reputation by hard work and through decent behaviour. I’m talking about NOW pensions....
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“NOW and then” ; why one big master trust is “off the list”!
News that one of the “big three master trusts ” was closing a significant door to new business, came as a surprise to auto-enrolment practitioners. NOW claimed to have voluntarily withdrawn itself...
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Four ways to harvest what auto-enrolment has sown!
For the past year, we have been thinking about where to position Pension Playpen to help small businesses with their workplace pension. We’ve worked out that small businesses taking on pensions for...
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Finger in the dyke stuff! DC pricing is just too leaky Jon!
It’s a mug’s game Jon! Jonathan Stapleton has written a deliberatively provocative piece in Professional Pensions which will be applauded by the operators of workplace pensions but is going to get...
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NOW!; that’s what I call bruising!
NOW; the muscly mastertrust with over 1.5m members, isn’t taking Pension Bee’s stinging assessment lying down. Rob Booth, has gone to some trouble to put the other side of the story. As a...
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NOW writes to the Chancellor on behalf of the pension unloved.
Now pensions and a host of us have written to the Treasury and this is what we’ve said. Automatic enrolment is a policy success story with nearly 10 million people saving into a workplace pension...
View ArticlePot consolidation doesn’t need alchemy – it needs common purpose and leadership
The case for Government intervention on “small pots” is made very well by Dirk Paterson It is indeed time for Government intervention, but the choices are many and each has its issues. The danger of...
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