Helen Morrissey speaks to pensions minister Baroness Ros Altmann about her focus on auto-enrolment and why some policies have been put on the backburner.
I am speaking to Baroness Ros Altmann at the NAPF Conference just after her first major public speech as pensions minister. Discussion at the conference was sparked by a ministerial statement issued earlier in the day delaying work on key policies such as pot follows member, collective defined contribution (CDC) and defined ambition (DA). The reason given for the delay is to allow more time to embed auto-enrolment (AE) and support smaller employers as they reach their staging dates, and to focus on ensuring people understand the new flat-rate state pension. Such an approach is very...
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