Auto-enrolment - the countdown begins

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With a year to go until auto-enrolment kicks in for the largest employers, Fiona Murphy finds out how advisers are preparing

Never mind the 2012 Olympics. ­Implementing auto-enrolment will be a Herculean task. In less than a year's time, large employers are ­required to have a compliant ­pension scheme in place for all qualifying employees.  They have the choice of either keeping their current pension ­arrangement in place or else opt for an arrangement offered by ­providers such as the National ­Employment Savings Trust (NEST). With the finish line in view, you would expect advisers to be ­engaging their clients now and putting a strategy in place. So how are advisers preparing for the changes, and what hu...

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