Auto-enrolment: Six magic questions advisers should be asking clients

Six magic auto-enrolment questions

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Some employers are still reticent about auto-enrolment. Here Tom Nall outlines six 'magic' questions advisers should ask to help them get the ball rolling

Employers approaching advisers for guidance on implementing an auto-enrolment solution should be a perfectly straightforward equation.  Employers need help - and, importantly, increasingly know they need help - and advisers are ideally positioned to provide that help.  With more than one million employers still to meet their staging date, logic would dictate that advisers shouldn't be able to open their office door in the morning because of the flood of enquiries pouring in from concerned employers.  However, the majority of advisers and accountants I'm talking to daily tell me tha...

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