Pot follows member

The majority of respondents think it is time to stop whinging about pot follows members and get on with it, but a third thinks that if the industry is going to be dragged down that road it should go kicking and screaming.

AMNT’s Barry Parr explores a parallel problem to stranded pots

Strengthening industry collaboration, improving data accuracy and establishing an appropriate timescale are the biggest challenges for pot follows member, Standard Life head of workplace strategy Jamie Jenkins says.

Aviva and Hargreaves Lansdown have proposed an alternative system to pot follows member in which members' pensions do not transfer when they move jobs, but their new employers pay into their old schemes.

The question of whether the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) pot follows member plans could be delivered without eating into pots split the Buzz audience.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has said he envisages automatic transfers being used in defined benefit (DB) schemes to counter the issue of deferred members.

Helm Godfrey has launched a multi-employer, auto-enrolment compliant pension scheme for the film industry.

Hannah Brenton says young people's aversion to saving is not down to apathy

Pension transfers have seen a 42% rise year on year, according to Origo.

Hannah Brenton looks at the DWP's plans for an 'automatic transfer' system for small pots