Combined auto-enrolment and personal pension provider Collegia launches

FCA-regulated scheme is portable, ESG-focused and aims for simplified planning

James Phillips
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A combined auto-enrolment (AE) and personal pension provider has launched in a bid to provide savers and employers with a seamless, greener and engaging proposition.

Founded by Eduardo Chazan and Riccardo Gasparini - chief executive and chief financial officer respectively - and funded by investments from Oxford University Incubator and private backers, app-based Collegia Pensions is particularly setting its sights on tackling the small pot problem. The scheme combines AE and personal pension products to create a proposition that is accessible by multiple employers simultaneously, and those with full employment and gig employment incomes. Collegia also wants to actively work with advisers, both in their capacity as advisers to SME schemes, and as ...

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James Phillips

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