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    How employers can help to tackle the ‘motherhood penalty’

    For a lot of women, having children is associated with having a lower income. Employers can help to tackle this problem by providing more flexible working conditions.
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    Donna Walsh

    April 08, 2024

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    How can Master Trust boards avoid confirmation bias?

    By better understanding different people’s needs and attitudes, we can build a more inclusive retirement savings system. But do we understand other people as well as we might think?
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    Donna Walsh

    January 24, 2024

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    5 tips for improving your financial wellbeing programme

    Financial wellbeing has been a hot topic in recent years, but what does the term actually mean? And how much difference do most financial wellbeing programmes actually make to employees’ lives?
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    July 26, 2023

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    How attitudes towards saving and retirement vary by age, gender and ethnicity

    Generation, gender, ethnicity and employment status can all affect people’s ability and willingness to save for retirement – according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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    February 17, 2023

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    How to boost diversity, equity and inclusion in pensions systems

    If we want to uncover how pension systems can become more inclusive, we must first understand what might influence people’s ability and willingness to save for retirement.
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    February 17, 2023

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    Diversity, equity and inclusion in asset-backed pensions: OECD Business and Finance Policy Papers

    Analysis of what influences people's ability and willingness to save for retirement by looking at the views, attitudes and expectations of adults living in the UK.
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    February 17, 2023

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    Video | OECD webinar on diversity, equity and inclusion in pensions

    The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development speaks to Standard Life about why pension systems must adapt as societies become more diverse.
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    February 17, 2023

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The aims of Thinking Forward

We want to make financial security in retirement more achievable and widespread, and generally fairer. It's how we believe we can best support the long-term and diverse needs of savers, as well as supporting employers, advisers and trustees.

This is why we launched our thought leadership programme, Thinking Forward.

Through regular events and insights, we want to:

  • Support our customers with innovative retirement income solutions
  • Deliver better data- and insight-driven customer engagement and service
  • Build propositions with financial inclusion in mind
  • Invest responsibly
  • Champion financial wellness

As well as conducting our own research, we will work with industry experts worldwide to ensure we bring a global perspective to help drive and develop solutions based on research and best practice.

Standard Life's brand promise is to help people secure a life of possibilities.

Our brand ambition is to be a leader in the markets of which we operate by putting customers at the heart of everything we do.

Amoungst other things, this means being a thought leader, pushing debate on the topics that really matter to our. customers, our clients and their advisors.

Providing insightful views and making policy recommendations.

And if we do this well, we get the chance to broaden our influence base and impact across a wider set of channels.

Our joint research initiative with the OECD

We’re excited to have embarked on a three-year joint research initiative with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

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