Standard Life launches five-stage AE compliance process

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Standard Life has launched an online auto-enrolment process, designed to facilitate the conversion of current arrangements to qualifying workplace pension schemes.

The five stage process allows the employer, and their adviser, to work through the key decisions and tasks via interactive tools, videos, templates and guides. Standard Life workplace proposition director Graeme Bold said next year would be a crucial year for the success of auto-enrolment due to the number of staging dates.  He explained: "Standard Life will be supporting more than 3,500 existing clients alone. It was therefore essential that we not only continued to enhance our systems to support the capacity but that we delivered a straightforward, online process to reduce the burde...

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