Jason Green: Auto-enrolment's growing advice opportunity

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Jason Green looks at how advisers can help corporate clients understand if they are with the best pension provider to meet their employees' needs and minimise the burden of running an auto-enrolment scheme

Even as things stand ahead of any implementation of the proposals in the Department for Work & Pensions' freshly published Auto-Enrolment Review, more than eight million members are now enrolled in an automatic enrolment pension scheme. That is more than 500,000 employers - and there are still more to join over the next 15 months. According to the Pensions Regulator, meanwhile, eligible members contributed £87.1bn in savings in 2016. That is a massive amount of assets and one where any adviser should be looking for their share. So how can advisers help their employer clients in unders...

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