Robert Cochran, pensions expert at Scottish Widows,
Talk to me "Your first task is to get an employer to realise just how big a deal AE is for them. Initially, they may think it's little different from setting up a pension plan, but it's about enacting complex legislation and complying with new rules; the pension plan is a small part of that process. "I went to see an employer whose first words were, ‘I don't see what a big deal this whole auto-enrolment is'. We showed her that TPR's project plan started 18 months prior to staging (she was four months away) and its fines table (with more than 1,000 employees, the fines were potentially ...
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