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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.
Donna WalshApril 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?
Donna WalshJanuary 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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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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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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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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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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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.
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