NEST

The government-backed auto-enrolment (AE) provider NEST is the latest master trust to apply for authorisation to The Pensions Regulator (TPR), PP can exclusively reveal.

Mark Fawcett says providing members with consistent and regular returns is crucial to keep them paying into their pension despite the contribution hike.

Just one in 20 members feel too much of their income goes into their pension, NEST Insight says.

NEST has launched a tender process to find a manager for its first global investment-grade corporate bond fund.

Products which allow the public to save into both a pension and a liquid pot are an opportunity that all employers should be embracing, Guy Opperman has said.

PP editor Jonathan Stapleton speaks to NEST director of customer engagement Mark Rowlands about how his scheme is engaging members.

Dean Wetton Advisory has unveiled research analysing the value added by master trust investment strategies, exclusively to PP. Kim Kaveh looks at the findings.

This week's top stories were the British Steel review concluding that trustees "need professional help" on communications, and Smart Pension absorbing £12.5m Corporate Pensions Trust.

HM Treasury has agreed in principle to give NEST a £329m contingent liability guarantee in the event of the master trust's wind up or closure.

NEST's director of business development Helen Dowsey speaks to James Phillips about communications, sidecar savings, and retirement products.