NEST

Employers view NEST as "largely irrelevant" as most will rely on existing employee pension arrangements after 2012, according to a new study.

The RDR poses a threat to the stream of communication between IFAs, small business owners and their employees on pension schemes, an employee benefits consultant warns.

Just over half of small firms support auto-enrolment but 53% say it will "add significantly to costs", the ACA says.

The National Employment Savings Trust(NEST) will be retained despite a cull of over 177 quangos, a Cabinet Office document says.

Canada Life and the Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) are launching a series of free seminars for advisers aimed at growing the group income protection (GIP) market.

Gen Re has backed a community rated income protection (IP) product to compliment state benefits and called on the industry to add its support to the proposal.

Just under half of UK employers will level-down their pension schemes in order to meet the cost of auto-enrolment, a survey from the ACA suggests.

The DWP claims 56% of employers and 64% of eligible individuals support government plans for auto-enrolment into workplace pension schemes.

Dominic Fryer, manager of corporate strategy and risk at Friends Provident, explains why advisers should be encouraging the use of workplace savings platforms.

ABI acting director general Maggie Craig says the Government must rethink the way it calculates employer contributions to NEST.