Tag Archives: Friends of Auto-Enrolment
Tidings of great joy from the ICAEW
Auto-enrolment is a worry to accountants. Estimates are pretty consistent that around two thirds of all employers staging auto enrolment will look to accountants for compliance with auto-enrolment regulations and help with choosing and setting up a workplace pension. Unfortunately … Continue reading
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Five things I’d change to help employers with Auto-Enrolment
I spent yesterday with 62 employers , 1 of whom had staged auto-enrolment (a small employer in the June 2015 trial). As I listened to questions and talked with my friend at the Regulator who was co-speaker, I tried to … Continue reading
Mastertrusts – an accident waiting to happen?
How do we pay for pensions? We still know too little about what we are paying for pensions. The following statement appears on Standard Life’s website Employers can be confident that their schemes will all be compliant with the charge … Continue reading
Will auto-enrolment capacity get crunched?
Today is the day of the Friends of Auto-Enrolment Capacity Crunch Conference which takes place in PWC’s offices at Charing Cross. The big debates of the day will be about Whether there will be a capacity crunch either in … Continue reading
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Tagged AE, Andy Agethangelou, API, Business, CIPP, employers, FoAE, FofAE, Friends of Auto-Enrolment, Payroll, payroll administrator, payroll bureaux, payroll professional body, payroll software, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Ros Altmann, Steve Webb, Workplace Pensiions, workplace Pensions
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The FofAE Choices Taskforce – what we’re about!
Vision Every employer staging auto-enrolment will be able to demonstrate they have taken reasonable steps to make an informed choice over their workplace pension. Objectives To ensure that employers are aware that they have a duty to choose a suitable … Continue reading
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How interoperable are you?
One of the Friends of Auto-Enrolment’s groups is called the interoperability task-force. I think Andy Agethangelou makes these names up so his name seems short by comparison. “Interoperability” is a concept I haven’t come across before, but like a lot … Continue reading
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The perils of Pre-Selection
Yesterday was dominated by one word – choice. During the day I attended the ICAEW Auto-enrolment conference with around 120 accountants. It was a very serious event, enlivened by an outburst from the floor as an accountant objected to the … Continue reading
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Tagged CIPP, Friends of Auto-Enrolment, pension playpen, Pre-selection
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A Transparency Taskforce?
A Transparency Taskforce? Sounds good doesn’t it? Echoes of the Falklands, of Maggie v the Argies (don’t mention the Belgrano) But the task force that will meet later this morning at the University of London Senate House, at the … Continue reading
Auto-enrolment needs payroll and advisers on the same page.
News reaches me from up north of an abrasive public meeting in which a major payroll disputed the value of financial advice in staging auto-enrolment. I need not name names, sadly it comes as no surprise to hear a payroll software providers … Continue reading
Great news for auto-enrolment as systemsync gets its funding.
The news that systemsync has got over £800,000 of angel funding should delight anyone wishing to see auto-enrolment work for our SMEs and micros. It’s going to be good news for payroll software companies and good news for pension providers. … Continue reading