Chancellor Rishi Sunak recently announced the latest updates to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS). The key change is that businesses are now encouraged to bring back employees to work part-time from 1 July 2020. This was originally planned for…
Winston Churchill’s words of November 1942 seem appropriate at the moment: “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” We are living through remarkable…
We understand that this is a challenging time for many of our members and that your work situation may have changed suddenly. We’ve answered some key questions about your workplace pension below. Our information is based on the latest guidance…
We understand that many businesses are facing serious challenges at the moment and are having to change their priorities and practices. We want to help you continue to manage your workplace pension effectively and we’ve put together some useful information…
Businesses and organisations are facing unprecedented challenges due to the Coronavirus. The government has put together a package of measures to help businesses meet some of these challenges and we’ve listed some of the new schemes and support available below.…
In light of ongoing developments with Coronavirus (COVID-19) we wanted to tell you about the steps we are taking to ensure business continuity during the coming weeks while prioritising the health of our colleagues and our clients. What we are…
What a rollercoaster. By the time you read this, there will undoubtedly have been more ups and downs across the world’s stock markets. We’re not even through the first quarter of 2020, and there have been so may storms…
Spring’s almost here, which means the new tax year – starting on 6 April – is also just around the corner. Here’s a quick reminder of what it means for employers and their staff in terms of auto enrolment into…
It’s International Women’s Day on Sunday 8 March. And as part of our ongoing research into the gender pensions gap, we spoke to a handful of girls aged between six and 12 and asked them what they thought of work,…
This week, the Department for Work and Pensions released its Automatic enrolment evaluation report for 2019. It revealed that the percentage of people saving for their retirement through a workplace pension scheme grew from 55% in 2012 to a healthy…
Our all-weather approach to investing saw our Diversified Growth Fund deliver returns of 15.7% – an impressive return for our members.
Life events like marriages and holidays require planning to ensure you get what you expect from them: your retirement is no exception. Retirement is a journey – start out by plotting what you want your destination to be so you…
According to a recent report by The People’s Pension, the gender pension gap in the UK is twice the gender pay gap. I had a sneak preview of research done by NOW: Pensions and the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) where…
We know that the gender pension gap is already large at the time of retiring, but it will increase further as many women are destined to outlive both their partner and their pension savings. This is one of the consequences…
Sign our petition to help us stop nearly 2m of the lowest earners across the UK missing out on a tax top up from the government. We’ve previously spoken about a loophole whereby, depending on which type of scheme pension…
We often hear about growing income gaps in our society. But there is one particular income gap that is not talked about quite so much – the income gap between you and your future self. The word pension is, at…
In life, choice is generally considered a good thing. But, when it comes to auto enrolment, offering investment choice can end up adding no value and driving up cost for members. When the NOW: Pensions Trust was launched in 2011,…
On 6 April, the official roll out of automatic enrolment came to an end when minimum contributions increased from 5% to 8% of qualifying earnings. Thanks to auto enrolment, more than 10 million people have begun to save for their…
In the week that we saw the Spice Girls headlining at Wembley Stadium, new figures were released by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) revealing that, a staggering 87% of people were saving into a workplace pension in 2018.…
What was the greatest comeback this season? Was it Frank Lampard’s Derby, who saw off Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds and became the first team ever to overturn a home defeat in the first leg of a Championship play-off semi-final and go…
Gender pay gap reporting has helped to shine a light on the disparity between men and women’s pay. But, the gender pensions gap is often overlooked. According to the Wealth & Assets Survey, over a million women in their 50s…
With so much change in the pensions industry it can be tough to sort fiction from fact. Here we’ve debunked some of the most common myths. 1. It’s not worth having a workplace pension Not true! Most people receive more…
Earlier this week the Department for Work and Pensions announced that since the introduction of automatic enrolment in 2012, 10 million people have been auto enrolled. Hitting 10 million auto enrolled is a huge milestone and it’s certainly a cause…
Thanks to auto enrolment, nearly 10 million more people are saving for their retirement – a huge achievement. But, auto enrolment minimum contributions may not be enough for most people to be sure of a comfortable retirement. Unfortunately, this is…
Sterling seems to have been in the middle of a storm for some years now. It has depreciated to such an extent that for a lot of investors, the currency exchange rate has been the single biggest contributor to investment…
Just before Christmas, the government renewed its commitment to launching a pensions dashboard. After some uncertainty about whether the project would get the green light, the feasibility study and industry consultation published by the DWP received a warm welcome from…
Knapton Wright is a social media marketing consultancy in Lincolnshire formed by Alex and Louise Wright in 2014. It evolved over the past four years into a creative marketing agency, working with SMEs locally, regionally and nationally, with a handful…
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. …
As a business owner, you’re no doubt aware that low employee productivity levels, absenteeism and high attrition rates have a direct effect on your company’s bottom line. And if you have a relatively high rate of attrition or underproductivity at…
How often do we read about futurologists, economists, or even weather forecasters who got their predictions wrong? They tend to be forgotten. There is always an exception, for instance Michael Fish who, on the evening of 15th October 1987, calmly…
