The following are links to articles, comments and news regarding the development Personal Accounts. On 7th January 2010 Personal Accounts were officially rebranded The National Employment Savings Trust or NEST. The links on this page are to news stories and articles about NEST Pensions and should provide a valuable resource tool for anyone interested in finding out more about the proposed new pension scheme; The National Employment Savings Trust. These comments are not the comments of www.PersonalAccounts.info and we do not necessarily agree with or condone them.
Admin woes will distract from NEST investment strategy
Professional Pensions
Blake said PADA also wanted the default fund in auto-enrolment to be fairly low risk in the early years, in order to avoid any reputation damage if there ...
Admin woes will distract from NEST investment strategy
Global Pensions
... major challenge for NEST Corporation, the trustees for the country's upcoming personal accounts scheme, and it could face problems managing cash flows. ...
Workers now pay more into pensions than employers, statistics show
People Management Magazine Online
From 2012, employers will be compelled to make contributions of up to 3 per cent into employee personal account pension schemes, recently rebranded as ...
Three quarters to stay in Nest overall, but huge age and regional differences - B&CE
Almost three quarters of employees intend to stay opted into the National Employment Savings Trust, but take-up varies widely according to region and take-up, according to new research.
Tweaked national pension scheme rules put before parliament
Citywire.co.uk
The final draft regulations for the auto-enrolment personal accounts scheme, now known as Nest, have been put before Parliament by work and pensions ...
Default funds allow trustees to evade their duties
PADA launches Personal Accounts investment paper. The Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA) has launched its consultation paper on investment practice for the national pension savings scheme ...
Feather the Nest
Money Marketing
Pada spent 11 months working with external agencies to develop this new name and brand identity. And as you would expect none of this came “cheep” please ...
Millions to get first pension - Employers to pay in
Webnewswire.com
... National Employment Savings Trust Corporation and as a consequence, the Order which will wind up the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority in July 2010.
Steve Bee: How the government's pension reforms will work
Citywire.co.uk
A Personal Account – that's the government's planned national pension scheme – called by any other name, such as a Nest, is still Personal Account, surely? ...
Personal accounts: feathering the NEST
PersonnelToday.com
But the twin objectives of auto-enrolment and personal accounts now seem to have been split, so while the full employers' contribution has been delayed, ...
Employers welcome pension reform clarifications
People Management Magazine Online
Employers have welcomed changes to the planned personal accounts pensions system, now rebranded as 'Nest', which should reduce the burden of paperwork on HR ...
Pada spent £199000 'customer testing' Nest name
Citywire.co.uk
By William Robins | 13:44:55 | 12 January 2010 The Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (Pada) spent £199000 on 'customer testing' and £140000 on 'brand ...
Employers want compulsory enrolment
The majority of employers believe that compulsion is the only solution to the UK’s pension crisis
Delays and extensions the name of the game for 2012 reforms
The Government has issued amended draft regulations today regarding the 2012 pensions reform changes, with further delays and extensions the common theme
Final rules on pension reform put before Parliament
FT Adviser
The announcement comes as the Department of Work & Pensions published orders to establish the new Personal Accounts corporation - the National Employment ...
Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail
This is Money
'I'm having such a lot of fun here,' he says with apparent seriousness as he sits in Pada's offices, a short walk from London Bridge across the Thames from ...
UK government renames pension initiative
FinancialAdvice.co.uk
The UK government made some amendments to the "Personal Accounts" pension system which has now been rebranded as the "National Employment Savings Trust" ...
Broad industry support as personal accounts rebranded as 'Nest ...
The proposed national scheme for employees without access to a private workplace pension is to be rebranded as Nest. Nest, which stands for National Employment.
Pensions scheme to be called 'NEST'
Public Service
The Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA), responsible for administering the scheme, chose the name to encourage people put off by the term 'pension' ...
Round up – January 8
Professional Pensions
The Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (Pada), the quango introducing the pensions arrangements, spent £350000 on research and consultants to come up with ...
Personal Accounts have been rebranded as NEST
IFAonline| 07 Jan 2010 | 17:00
The National Employment Savings Trust - NEST - has been unveiled as the new brand name for Personal Accounts.
PA awareness 'very low' among small employers
Professional Pensions
By Jenna Towler A department for work and pensions research report on the likely responses of small employers to personal accounts is not “happy reading”, ...
Government pensions policy 'is failing'
The Guardian
Firms that wish to be exempted from offering personal accounts (a new pension scheme targeted at low income employees without any pension provision) will ...
Will 2010 see major changes in the UK pension industry?
FinancialAdvice.co.uk
There is no doubt that the last few years have been a disaster for the UK pension industry with the value of personal pensions under pressure, final salary ....