auto enrolment: to ae or not to ae?
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Auto enrolment: to AE or not to AE? by Niall Ferguson, National Partnership Manager. Presented at the Community Accountancy Special Interest Group Annual Conference 2014.TRANSCRIPT
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Auto enrolment:to AE or not to AE?
Niall Ferguson | National Partnership Manager
30 January 2014
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• NOW: Pensions is a UK multi-employer Trust
• Supported by ATP, Denmark’s leading pension provider
Low cost operating model:
• ATP investment team
• Equiniti Paymaster administrator platform
45 yearsc£70bn FUM
* Back tested data for the UK based on ATP’s investment strategy and NOW: Pensions’ implementation strategy to 30 Sept 2012
Who we are
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IPE Judges comments
“ATP just gets better and better… achieving the ultimate accolade as Best European
Pension Fund is not down to mere good fortune”
ATP 2011 IPE Investment Awards
•Best European Pension Fund
•Best Long Term Investment Strategy
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Why get involved in AE?• Fundamentally auto enrolment will present
additional work to you and your clients
• It is an opportunity to demonstrate support and solutions for your clients
• Minimise process interruptions and client anxiety
• You could increase your commercials by demonstrating added value
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What could happen if we don’t engage in the process?
Surely it’s nothing to do with us?
No comms zone
!Or is it. . .?
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If only someone could help me with all of this AE stuff…
Could we pay
someone to do it?
I don’t have time to deal with anything
else
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Is this an opportunity to increase clients/ earnings…
…or is it just about supporting the clients you have?
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So let’s look at the process……
• Choosing to take part in the process may make things easier
• We can transact to suit your processes
• We understand that by working with Payroll Bureaux we can mutually benefit
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3rd party carries out assessment
Run payroll
Send data
Middlewareruns assessment
Receivedata
Re-runPayroll
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Payroll bureaux runs assessment
Concurrent processes within software
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Auto enrolment solution – Schematic
1. Payroll assesses workers via software
Payroll Bureaux service
Employees
3. Communications issued explaining options and website• Entitled workers• Non-eligible job holders • Eligible jobholders
5. Confirmation of decisions including opt-out (paper based or email) Outcomes passed back to payroll
4. Eligible job holders go through self registration process to gain access to online decision system.
2. Outputs to be issued to NOW: Pensions
HRPayroll Pension provider
• Interface to HR with pension scheme indicators• Interface to Payroll with contribution deduction
• Interface of “joiner” info to Pensions Admin• Management reporting
6. Automated production of:
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Transact with multiple clients
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Integrated
• Actively setting up schemes with NOW: Pensions
• Maximising schemes held with preferred provider(s)
= optimise efficiency
client support and attraction
Partial integrated
• Promoting preferred provider solutions
• Supporting processes in a defined way
= optimise efficiency
client support and attraction
Passive
• Leave clients to decide on provider
• Leave clients to decide on processes
= client retention issues?
negative impact on processes likely
What approach will you take?
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We believe we can make things easier for all!
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C160,000 employers
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