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Smart Pension has partnered with payroll software provider Sage in a bid to help automate pension contribution processing for small businesses.

Mercer has teamed up with Smart Pension to launch a pension solution for the UK’s 5.5 million small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs).

News analysis, case studies and informed comment on the challenges facing UK pension schemes, from Pensions Expert, a DG Publishing service

This week’s movers include those at Arthur J. Gallagher, Mercer, WTW and the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, among others.

Smart Pension has agreed to buy Evolve Pensions, the parent of Crystal Master Trust.

The UK’s Smart Pension has grown to £4bn after acquiring Crystal Trust and its Evolve Pensions. Operating since 1988, Evolve was an independently owned company managing core services essential for pensions, including DC administration, consultancy, and secretariat services. Crystal Trust has 128,000 members and £750 million in assets. The acquisition brings a computer system called…

Smart Pension acquired Evolve Pensions along with its defined contribution multiemployer plan Crystal Trust.

Top workplace pension firm Smart Pension has snapped up a peer with some £750m in funds under management amid calls for consolidation in the sector.

News analysis, case studies and informed comment on the challenges facing UK pension schemes, from Pensions Expert, a DG Publishing service

One of the most acquisitive platforms mopping up British workplace pension schemes has clinched a deal giving it another 128,000 new savers and £750 million