Jason Green: What's next for workplace pensions?

Secondary market competition

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With 10 million employees now involved, auto-enrolment is undeniably a success and yet for it to continue to be so, writes Jason Green, it is imperative employers ensure they have the right pension provider for their staff

To all intents and purposes, auto enrolment has now finished, as the majority of employees have now been staged. This does not mean the end of workplace pensions however, as 2019 should prove a very interesting year. That is because pension providers will be focusing their efforts on retaining existing clients and competing in the secondary market to grow their assets. Many employers who have had an auto enrolment pension for the last six years will have accumulated a sizeable pension pot that will now be attractive for many competing providers' attention. It is my understanding there...

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