Capita

Listen to our latest Pensions Conjecture debate on Auto-enrolment.

Capita has hired Peter Vickers as a pension consultant within its employee benefits business.

Finance and Technology Research Centre director Ian McKenna has said the auto-enrolment of small to medium sized enterprises will be a "political disaster".

Capita Hartshead and Bluefin Corporate Consulting will operate as a combined business under the new name of Capita Employee Benefits from November.

The Pension Protection Fund has launched a specialist administration services panel it says will cut the time schemes spend in its assessment period.

The Pension Protection Fund is set to bring its compensation administration in-house and run its own customer service operation.

Andrew Short looks at why dividends could be making a comeback

Dividend pay outs from UK companies will increase more than 10% this year, led by top dividend payments from telecom giant Vodafone, Capita predicts.

Andrew Short considers the pros and cons of outsourcing

In the second part of our run-down of the most read Professional Pensions Online articles in 2011, we look at the top 20 news stories during the year - starting with those in eleventh to twentieth place.