What's in it for me? Why advisers can't ignore auto-enrolment

Biggest year yet for auto-enrolment

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Advisers who shun the auto-enrolment market are missing out on profitable, recurring streams of business, writes Graham Peacock. Is your firm missing out?

2016 is proving to be a totemic year for auto-enrolment. Newly published figures by The Pensions Regulator show that more than 100,000 employers will meet their staging dates in the first three months of 2016 and over 500,000 in total in 2016. Recent research by Platforum found that more than 2,000 mid-to-large sized employers intend to review their workplace savings provider in the next twelve months, creating a significant secondary market. These reports highlight both the scale of the challenge for employers as they work to ready themselves for these milestones, as well as the o...

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