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Administering auto-enrolment: The how
What are the important things to get right to ensure a successful implementation and ongoing administration of auto-enrolment?

Pension Taxation update
Bulk Annuity Market Modeller

intouch technical update 
EIOPA advises EC on pensions harmonisations

intouch technical update - March 2012
Court decides that CPI can be used as suitable measure of inflation in scheme rules.

Risk Settlement Group, Bulk Annuity Market - Flash update for 2011
This is an interim update to give information on business placed for Q4 and full year 2011.

intouch technical update - February 2012 
Final regulations on auto-enrolment

intouch technical update - January 2012 
Government confirms delay to auto-enrolment timetable

Paul McGlone says preparation, rather than simple aspiration, will be key to pension schemes attaining their long term funding targets.

About £16 billion of UK pension schemes liabilities have had  the longevity risk removed by bespoke pensioner longevity swaps in the last three years

Could 'AE' lead to accident or emergency for your DB or DC schemes?
For many employers AE - auto-enrolment - might well be a matter of just doing enough to be compliant with the new requirements.

The fall-out of delaying AE
Delays to auto-enrolment may have worrying implications, as Aon Hewitt client relationship manager Geraldine Brassett explains.

Defining defaults
The DWP has issued new guidance on DC defaults.  John Foster explains and discusses the keys to default success.

Auto-enrolment is coming - so plan now
With auto-enrolmentl looming on the not so distant horizon, our experience with clients so far is that as they start to engage with the requirements of the new legislation, they quickly realise that the complexity and scale of issues involved extends beyond pensions and into payroll and HR processes.

Time is of the essence
Know your staging date as the first step in preparing for the challenge of auto-enrolment advises, John Foster, Aon Hewitt

Surveys

Aon Hewitt Benefit and Trends Survey 2011
This report, the third Aon Hewitt Benefits and Trends Survey, outlines both the challenges facing employers and the solutions many are adopting in their benefits programmes. There is much to learn from the practices described in the report.

The main challenges are keeping costs down, addressing low levels of engagement and dealing with legislative changes. The most significant of these legislative changes is auto-enrolment, the statutory requirement for all employers to enrol into a qualifying pension scheme all eligible jobholders.

Please click here to download a copy of the report. To request a hard copy of the report please email us.