Standard Life continues AE push with Barnett Waddingham deal

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Standard Life and Barnett Waddingham are partnering up to target small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for auto-enrolment (AE).

This is the third consultancy team-up announced by Standard Life in recent months, following similar deals with Punter Southall and LEBC. Barnett Waddingham said it will develop services with Standard Life to provide AE support for companies with staging dates from early 2014. The consultancy highlighted figures from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) that suggest there are more than 30,000 companies with between 50 and 250 employees that will stage over the next 18 months. Barnett Waddingham head of employee benefits Damian Stancombe said: "There is increasin...

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