Ready for stakeholder pensions? - Personnel practitioners have often been more than happy to leave pensions to the specialists, but the advent of the stakeholder pension next year is about to change that. Stakeholder pensions will be available from April 2001, and from 8 October 2001 employers that are not covered by exemptions must: designate a registered stakeholder pension scheme; provide employees with information about the designated scheme; and make deductions from employees' pay for their pension contributions to the designated scheme if the employees so wish. In a concise overview, written for non-specialists, we provide a summary of the implications for employers of stakeholder pensions.