LONDON, 4 November 2014 – Aon Employee Benefits, the UK health and benefits business of Aon plc (NYSE: AON) has announced that Standard Life’s ‘Good to Go’ auto-enrolment qualifying pension scheme has been integrated with the Aon Littleblue auto-enrolment platform.

Standard Life, one of the UK’s biggest workplace pension providers, has created an online auto-enrolment solution which provides advisers and their small and medium-sized clients with a decision on scheme terms within 60 seconds, and which has the ability to implement a qualifying workplace pension scheme (QWPS) within minutes.

Good to Go will be available on Aon Employee Benefits’ Littleblue. This all-in-one solution to the pension auto-enrolment challenges faced by small and medium enterprises (SMEs), incorporates product, platform, communications and education for employees in one place and for a single, guaranteed annual fee.

Clare Abrahams, head of auto-enrolment at Aon Employee Benefits, said:
“Littleblue has been developed to offer the SME market a sleek and all-encompassing auto-enrolment solution.  What makes Littleblue stand out is that it incorporates support and advice to the employer with the planning and scheme design required to become auto-enrolment compliant.  It also features an online employee dashboard and communications aimed at enhancing the employee experience - and the ultimate appreciation of their benefits package.

”However, it was important to Aon that these features could be offered at a level of cost that is affordable to the SME market where the business environment remains tough.”

Clare Abrahams continued:
“Auto-enrolment adds a new dimension to employee benefit provision in terms of cost and change - not only to the employer but to the employee too.  As such, employers need a benefits partner they can trust to guide them through this time, so we are delighted to be enhancing our solution further with the introduction of Standard Life’s innovative scheme on our platform.”

All Littleblue packages include access to an interactive auto-enrolment project planning tool which provides details of all the key steps that need to be considered and also prompts the employer contact regarding any overdue or upcoming duties by sending reminder emails.

In addition, Good to Go can be implemented with Littleblue up to six months prior to an employer’s staging date. Alternatively, in the event of an employer missing their staging date, the platform can still be used to make the employer auto-enrolment compliant up to two months later.

Alan Ritchie, Head of Workplace Solutions at Standard Life, said:
“We are delighted to be working with Aon to help support their small and medium-sized clients. Good to Go is designed to excel in the areas that most affect member outcomes: engagement, investment and retirement solutions. It also streamlines the auto-enrolment staging and regular processes to help minimise hassle for clients and to maximise their return on investment.”
 

Media Contact: 
Colin Mayes                                    Marina Jane Sanchez
Aon Hewitt                                      Capital MSL
01372 733689                                 020 3219 8811
colin.mayes@aonhewitt.com            marina.jane-sanchez@capitalmsl.com
 

Notes to editors

Littleblue
Littleblue fulfills all an organisation’s auto-enrolment obligations, as well as providing staff with an engaging pension platform. Designed by Aon Employee Benefits as an off-the-shelf, easy to administer auto-enrolment solution, it allows a company to be auto-enrolment compliant.

Features include
• A qualifying pension scheme (GPP or mastertrust) with a market leading AMC
• Online auto-enrolment hub including streamlined onboarding and opt-out functionality
• All compliant auto-enrolment communications
• An easy to use benefits communication portal for all employees
• Engaging employee launch communication materials and information about auto-enrolment
• Employee education and modelling tools including videos and calculators
• An administration centre to run usage reports and manage users

Additional packages include employee financial education sessions, an annuity hub, and shopping discounts.

Littleblue offers
• A complete, compliant automatic enrolment solution
 All pension information in one place, with one password, custom designed to be accessed from multiple devices
• Increased employee engagement
• Self-administered HR and reporting function
• Low cost, hassle free and speedy implementation, from as little as one month from staging
• Everything you need is already built in

For employees
• Littleblue provides them with a dashboard view of all aspects of their workplace savings via a single password, using single sign-on technology.
•  It includes auto-enrolment information, financial education, pension material, tutorial videos, pension planner, other investment modelling tools and calculators, case studies, and all communication material, in one central place.
• Littleblue also uses social validation and behaviour modules, combined with guidance, education and support around benefits, to engage employees about their future and encourage take-up

For more information about Littleblue or or auto-enrolment, visit www.getlittleblue.com,