Ten workplace pension providers achieve 'overall gold' ratings

Mercer takes clean sweep of overall gold awards

Sophia Panayi
clock • 3 min read

Ten providers have achieved ‘overall gold’ awards from the Benefits Guru for their workplace pension and auto-enrolment offering as part of the twelfth annual Workplace Pensions and Auto-Enrolment ratings.

Aviva and Royal London were among the ten providers. Mercer was the only provider to achieve a "clean sweep" of overall gold awards, and gold in all sub-categories across both workplace pension and auto enrolment ratings. Legal & General re-entered the ratings this year after taking a year off and secured an overall gold award for workplace pensions and silver for auto-enrolment. Two providers, Nest and People's Pension, asked not to be benchmarked. Each year the ratings include ten categories of special interest or relevance, looking at over 12,500 data points held within Benef...

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