Auto-enrolment is opening up a pensions knowledge gap among employers which the industry should be filling warn IFAs.
Over half (52%) of advisers polled by Aegon think employers will need "greater communication" in the run-up to auto-enrolment in 2012, according to the provider's latest IFA Insights research Corporate Advice - The Changing Landscape. Two-thirds (65%) said active promotion of quality pension schemes is necessary if advisers are to minimise ‘levelling down' of corporate pension provision. Better promotion of non-core benefits such as salary sacrifice is also seen as a popular way to minimise levelling down. Aegon says the survey of 100 IFAs shows real adviser concern about the changing...
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