Slow start for auto-enrolment pensions with returns of just £2,500

Five years since its launch, figures reveal how much workers have earned from the mandatory scheme
The first figures on investment returns from workers pushed into auto-enrolment pensions five years ago were revealed this week and can be read as a roaring success – or an indictment of how miserable a financial future most workers face in retirement.The earliest wave of employees began paying into the government-mandated schemes in October 2012, mostly staff at giant companies such as