Daems: IFAs could risk reputation on firms that have ignored AE

Nicola Brittain
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Director of Principal Financial Solutions Chris Daems argues that he may not have time to meet auto-enrolment (AE) obligations for some firms.

"Over the next couple of weeks I'm looking forward to meeting a number of business with significant employee numbers looking to ready their businesses for AE. However, what I'm not looking forward to is the potential outcomes of these meetings. While we would like to engage with many of these businesses long term, my primary concern is not if the business wants to work with us, but whether we can work with them. Do we have the time to provide a service which truly meets their obligations under the new legislation? Ultimately we may have to make a commercial and reputational decisio...

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