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  • 35% of companies have not selected an auto-enrolment pension

    A recent poll by Xafinity of HR, payroll and pensions professionals has revealed that 35% have not yet selected which pension vehicle they will use for auto-enrolment.  47% of respondents said they will be using their existing arrangement or a new arrangement (13%). However, almost all of the respondents rejected NEST as an option, with only 4% stating that they will use NEST in conjunction with another vehicle. Download

  • Xafinity Unveils Auto-Enrolment: The Complete Solution

    Xafinity, part of the Equiniti Group, and a leading UK provider of pensions and employee benefits, has launched the first truly comprehensive solution to auto-enrolment addressing human resource, payroll, pensions and financial challenges. Download

  • DC fund volatility is avoidable

    Xafinity, the leading UK provider of pensions and employee benefits, advises that despite seeing UK equities fall by almost 20% in a week, DC investment volatility is avoidable and schemes should take a more active stance now, ahead of auto-enrolment. Download

  • Xafinity Pension Trust appoints Bridge Trustees

    The Xafinity Pension Trust, one of the UK’s leading mastertrusts, has appointed Bridge Trustees as its Professional Trustee. Download

  • Xafinity Bridges DC Challenge

    The Pensions Regulator has published its response to enabling good member outcomes in work-based pensions.  In it, the regulator notes that mastertrust schemes have the potential to be a force for good, particularly through the economies of scale and strong governance they afford.  This is a comment echoed by the Workplace Retirement Income Commission. Download

  • Regulator commences countdown to auto-enrolment

    The Pensions Regulator has started writing to UK employers regarding auto enrolment.  In the next 6 months, nearly 600 of the largest organisations employing about a third of the UK workforce will have received letters from the Regulator marking 18 months to their duty date.  Download

  • Multi-employer trust based schemes: delivering good member outcomes efficiently and effectively

    In its recent consultation document, The Pensions Regulator identified multi-employer trust based schemes as having the potential to be able to deliver good member outcomes very effectively, through being able to achieve governance expertise and economies of scale. Download

  • Focus on enabling better outcomes

    In a week that the DWP closes its Call for Evidence on Regulatory Arbitrage and the Pensions Regulator closes its consultation on Enabling Better Outcome from DC schemes, Xafinity urges both parties to focus on how best to support individuals to make long term savings a success in the UK.  Download

  • Why is trust trying to be removed from pensions?

    Something strange has happened recently. Certain quarters of the industry have lobbied so effectively that the Department for Work and Pensions has issued a Call for Evidence as to whether the highly supportive trust-based pension structure affords an unfair advantage over individual insurance policies where members frequently receive little, if any, support in their pension planning. Download

  • DWP Call for Evidence

    Xafinity welcomes the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) call for evidence to review the regulatory differences between trust- and contract-based defined contribution schemes. Download

  • Xafinity Pension Trust - only Mastertrust to be awarded the Pension Quality Mark

    The Xafinity Pension Trust (XPT) is the first and only Mastertrust Defined Contribution (DC) pension solution to have been awarded the Pension Quality Mark (PQM) in recognition of its high levels of governance, communications and member support. Download

  • Resurgence of unapproved schemes on its way reports Xafinity

    The popularity of unregistered pension schemes, employee benefit trusts and cash will increase as alternatives to traditional provision of benefits in light of the Government’s proposal to restrict tax relief for high-income individuals from 2011, according to pension and employee benefit specialists, Xafinity Consulting. Download

  • Q & A Schemes in PPF assessment DC responsibilities

    Questions and answers Download

  • Schemes in PPF assessment must not lose sight of their DC responsibilities

    Xafinity, one of the UK’s leading specialist providers of pensions, employee benefits and payments expertise, has issued a warning to trustees and insolvency practitioners responsible for employers with Defined Benefit (DB) schemes in the Pensions Protection Fund (PPF) assessment period. Download

  • Engagement is key when it comes to auto-enrolment

    Companies that merely comply with the new phased-in auto-enrolment legislation, recently confirmed by pension minister Angela Eagle, will miss out on goodwill that can be generated within their employee base reports Xafinity Consulting. Download

  • Xafinity launches the ultimate pensions solution

    The poor and volatile performance of equity markets over this decade, coupled with a lack of investment guidance, has left pension scheme members increasingly worried about their retirement income. Recognising this, Xafinity, one of the UK’s leading specialist providers of pension and employee benefits, has launched an innovative model for the future of UK occupational pensions - Xafinity Pensions Trust (XPT). Download

  • Xafinity Pension Trust (XPT) Questions & Answers

    Questions & Answers Download

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