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Our Scottish Widows podcasts are now available through various Spotify or Podbean. Click the links below to go directly to each one.
December 2024
Over 60,000 employees have taken part in the Scottish Widows Retirewell Pension Education sessions this year with a big boost for Pay Your Pension Some Attention.
In this episode, Robert Cochran is joined by Stuart Hopley to discuss exactly what pension scheme members are asking about their pensions.
Women and Retirement Report 2024
November 2024
The 2024 Women and Retirement report highlights the progress made over the past 20 years in narrowing the gender pension gap. This podcast reviews the key milestones reached in the past two decades.
Financial Wellness - a Talk Money Week special
November 2024
In this episode, they discuss financial wellness, financial resilience, and some of the ways that young people, vulnerable customers, and policyholders alike can manage their finances.
November 2024
In this special, Robert Cochran is joined by ‘Mr Pension Dashboard’ Richard Smith who has travelled the length of Europe by train analysing all that European pension dashboards have to offer. He's also joined by 20-something Oliver Webster for the younger perspective as they discuss what the latest announcements from the government mean for pension dashboard – and just how big a revolution for pension engagement the dashboards promise to be.
September 2024
Join us to listen to our latest – and hugely entertaining – podcast with Graeme Bold talking to Robert Cochran about all thing’s pensions, getting behind Pension Engagement Season, tackling pension adequacy – and so much more.
Graeme explains how heading up a business which he has helped to grow to over £100bn in assets means we can do much more for our employers, advisers, and members so that they get engaged with their pension and build their finances for their future.
Bringing our Responsible Investments and Stewardship Report to life
September 2024
Managing £181 billion for 8.3 million customers is a huge responsibility & a chance for real impact.
September 2024
In our latest episode Robert is joined by Pete Glancy to review the 20th Scottish Widows landmark Retirement Report.
August 2024
Of course you can, just like learning, health, fitness and other areas of your life gamification techniques are being applied to encourage better outcomes.
Listen to this fascinating podcast, as Robert Cochran is joined by David Conner and Amy Rodger, real life digital experts who have played a part in designing gamification into the Scottish Widows Pension experience.
Decumulation - understanding the needs of the nation
July 2024
Robert Cochran is joined by Pete Glancy one of the authors of the recent Scottish Widows report into Decumulation where they review the fascinating findings, introduce the retirement decumulation cube and look at the guidance and advice people tell us they want at retirement.
They look at the 3 key drivers of retirement products - Control, Consistency and Legacy and plot everything from Drawdown, to annuities and CDC in the Retirement Matrix
Bringing Digital Banking to Pensions
July 2024
For this episode, Robert Cochran is joined by our own Scottish Widows digital expert Phil Allen, and digital native Connor Strachan as they focus on what pension apps can learn from digital banking, whilst remaining simple, quick and efficient for customers.
Creating an Award Winning Customer Vulnerability Strategy
June 2024
Improving support and outcomes for vulnerable customers has become a real focus for providers over the last few years. In this podcast we from those leading the Workplace Pension Servicing Teams at Scottish Widows about how vulnerable customers are identified and which are the key vulnerabilities we are seeing.
Practical use of AI in Pensions
April 2024
In this episode Robert Cochran is joined by our own Scottish Widows experts to discuss the practical uses of AI in the pension space, and how we can develop from where we are just now to improve customer experiences.
March 2024
In this episode Robert Cochran is joined by diversity champion David Butcher who shares how embracing mindfulness and is own experiences inspired him to launch Mindful Pensions.
The Inside Story on Scams and Scammers Podcast
March 2024
Mind-blowing discussion with one of Lloyds experts on Scams. Chris Thomason talks to our host Robert Cochran about scams we see across the bank, and how scammers are targeting pension funds.
February 2024
Expert panel hosted by Robert Cochran delving into ethics, security and opportunities data offers.
Improving Retirement Outcomes Employer Panel Podcast
February 2024
Stuart Hopley hosted a live podcast, joined by some of our employer clients and industry experts to discuss how we can improve retirement outcomes beyond auto-enrolment 2.0.
Future of Pension Investment Strategies Podcast
December 2023
Adam Paterson hosts a live panel on the future of pension investment strategies.
Women & Retirement Report Panel Discussion Podcast
November 2023
Jackie Leiper hosts an expert panel to look in more detail at some of the findings from the Scottish Widows Women & Retirement 2023 Report.
Insight Podcast - The Pension Engagement Season 2500 Questions Edition
November 2023
Robert Cochran & Stuart Hopley analyse the top 5 themes that scheme members asked our experts over the last few months.
May 2023
Expert panel hosted by Robert Cochran debating the cross regulator Value for Money Workplace Savings Framework.
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