Employers
Feb 05

Project CLAIRE

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Employers
Jan 05

Test for Joe Gray 2
Employers
Jul 09

Re-enrolment explained

For many UK employers and employees, 2020 marks the third anniversary of their workplace pension scheme. This is because many employers started their auto enrolment duties on 1 September 2017. So what does this mean for members of the NOW:…
Employers
Jun 09

What do the changes to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme mean for my firm?

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…
Employers
Apr 29

Reasons to be cheerful – one, two, three

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…
Employers
Apr 01

Coronavirus and your workplace pension

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…
Employers
Mar 30

Managing your workplace pension scheme during the Coronavirus

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…
Employers
Mar 30

Business support and finance during the Coronavirus

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.…
Employers
Mar 18

Keeping business going: our response to the Coronavirus

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…
Employers
Mar 12

Coronavirus: no one is completely immune, but some are more immune than others

  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…
Employers
Mar 11

Minimum contributions update for 2020-2021

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…
Employers
Mar 04

Pensions for girls: big questions for little people

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,…
Employers
Feb 27

Treasury must act fast to ensure auto enrolment’s continued success

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…
Employers
Jan 30

NOW: Pensions delivers an investment return of 15.7% for 2019

Our all-weather approach to investing saw our Diversified Growth Fund deliver returns of 15.7% – an impressive return for our members.
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…
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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,…
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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
Feb 05

Pensions Dashboard Data Standards Released

The pensions dashboard data Standards were released on blah blah blah  
Employers
Jan 05

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Jan 05

Test post notifications

Added new blog post in staging!
Employers
Nov 25

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This post is created for QA testing purpose update.
Employers
Nov 16

Count On 123..

Always believe in power of your dreams . What you think , listen , see you become . Choose wisely ! 
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…
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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…
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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…