As the UK begins auto-enrolment Helen Morrissey looks at how we can measure whether it is a success or not?
It has taken many years to achieve but we are at last about to enter auto-enrolment. Within days the UK’s largest employers begin auto-enrolling qualifying staff into a pension scheme. The project has faced trying times from its inception and at times it looked under real threat. As a result it is tempting to see this as some kind of endpoint. However, this is just the beginning. Data from the Pensions Regulator shows a whopping 18 million workers will be auto-enrolled by the end of 2013 – the challenge ahead is huge. So given that auto-enrolment is such a long term project how do we ...
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