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Employers
Oct 28

How to get the retirement you want

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…

Employers
Jul 10

The Gender Pension Gap

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…

Employers
Jul 10

The Gender Pension Gap – Part 2

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…

EmployeesEmployers
Jun 18

Help us reform the payment of pension tax relief to ensure that no low earners miss out

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…

Employers
Apr 25

Mind the income gap

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…

Employers
Apr 24

Why no choice is the right choice for auto enrolled savers

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,…

EmployeesEmployers
Apr 15

The big issue with small pension pots

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…

Employers
Jun 21

Get the retirement you really, really want

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.…

Employers
May 30

Good days outweigh bad days

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…

EmployeesEmployers
Mar 15

Shining a light on the gender pensions gap

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…

EmployeesEmployers
Mar 10

Eight pension myths busted

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…

Employers
Feb 13

10 million auto enrolled but put the champagne on ice

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…

Employers
Feb 04

With most people facing a retirement savings gap – how can employers help?

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…

Employers
Jan 24

Brexit – Which way the pound?

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…

EmployeesEmployers
Jan 18

Pensions dashboard a step closer to becoming a reality

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…

Employers
Dec 13

Client stories | Knapton Wright

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…

Employers
Nov 22

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

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.              …

Employers
Oct 21

Benefits of promoting financial wellness at your workplace

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…

Employers
Oct 21

What can we learn from hurricanes and heatwaves?

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…

Employers
Oct 15

Savers sticking with auto enrolment

In April, auto enrolment minimum contributions increased from 2% of qualifying earnings to 5% as part of the phased roll out of the policy. For auto enrolled savers paying in the minimum each month, this meant that their contributions tripled…

Employees
Oct 10

When should I start saving for my retirement?

When it comes to saving for retirement, it’s very easy to put it off. After all, there’s plenty of time, right? The simple truth is, the earlier you start saving for retirement the better as your money has more time…

Employers
Sep 18

Are too many people being excluded from auto enrolment?

Data published by The Pensions Regulator has shown that almost 10 million people have been auto enrolled since the scheme began in 2012. But, despite this encouraging headline figure, over nine million people have been excluded. This figure has risen…

EmployeesEmployers
Sep 17

A charging structure that makes it pay to save

When NOW: Pensions entered the UK market in 2011 we spent a lot of time thinking about how to structure our member charges so that they are simple, transparent and above all equitable. Most pension providers charge a flat annual…

Employers
Sep 12

Workplace pensions – the good news and the bad

Troy Clutterbuck, CEO, NOW: Pensions Earlier this month the Office for National Statistics published its annual Occupational Pension Schemes Survey. The good news is that the figures prove that auto enrolment is delivering on its promise of getting more people…

Employers
Sep 10

A warm welcome for tighter regulation

Over the winter, all master trusts who wish to continue operating in the UK are going to be submitting applications to The Pensions Regulator (TPR) for authorisation. This new regulatory regime is something NOW: Pensions has long campaigned for and…

Employers
Aug 23

NOW: Pensions reach a significant milestone with £750 million under management

NOW: Pensions Assets under management have just burst through the £750 million mark. The next milestone will be the beautifully rounded £1 billion.  It seems only yesterday that we were celebrating reaching £100 million, although that was over three years…

Employers
Aug 01

Seeing the wood for the trees on member charges

Earlier this week PensionBee published its “Robin Hood Index” which suggested that NOW: Pensions was one of the most expensive pension providers. The calculations they cited are inaccurate and misleading as they are based on 92 people with very small…

Employers
Jul 24

Five reasons why the government shouldn’t dash to scrap the pensions dashboard

The news reported in The Times that ministers are thinking of scrapping the pensions dashboard was met with collective horror by the pensions industry, consumer groups and savers. A petition urging the government to stick to its promise of launching…

Employers
Jul 12

Why no choice is the right choice for auto enrolled savers

In life, choice is generally considered a good thing. But, when it comes to the auto enrolment market, offering investment choice can end up adding no value and driving up cost for members. Auto enrolled savers are, by their very…

Employees
Jul 10

Playing for pensions

We look at what the potential retirement savings of an England fan versus an England footballer. An employee aged 22, earning an average £28,500 a year who started their workplace pension via auto enrolment should expect to accrue a retirement…

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