Blogs

  • 'A positive force in people’s lives'

    21/12/2020

    Yvonne Braun, Director of Policy, Long-term Savings and Protection, answers questions on how customers can be better supported through – and beyond – the Covid-19 crisis.

  • What more can be done to help people with retirement decisions?

    04/12/2020

    Our Head of Long-Term Savings, Rob Yuille, looks at what more needs to be done to help people make decisions at retirement, examining the essence of the problem and the direction of the solution.

  • How we can “level up” on pension contributions for the low paid

    13/10/2020

    When AE was first introduced in 2012, only 40% of private sector workers saved into a workplace pension; now 86% do.

  • Removing risk from platform migrations

    24/09/2020

    Remote working as a result of Covid-19 has brought the power of digitalisation to the fore, and as public health measures change how consumers interact with services across the economy businesses are…

  • Pots of Gen Z gold at the rainbow's end

    16/09/2020

    If coming-of-age in 2020 was a film, it might be classified as a horror. Along with many cancelled holidays, a messy A-levels results day and an unforgiving job market, the new financial…

  • Savers have pressed pause for now but what does this mean in the long-run?

    29/07/2020

    Following the release of industry pensions access data showing savers held back on pension withdrawals during lockdown, ABI's Head of Long-Term Savings, Rob Yuille, looks at what this might mean in the long-run.

  • WOW moments for International Women’s Day

    06/03/2020

    What better way to spend International Women’s Day, than attending the Women of the World (WOW) conference? Especially with a keynote from the host of The Guilty Feminist podcast, Deborah Frances-White...

  • Finding the right path

    03/03/2020

    It is in many ways too early to tell what the full pension freedoms story is. But it requires a major shift in communication needs that has not been examined in enough detail in the five years since…

  • One size doesn’t fit all

    28/02/2020

    It is one of the generally accepted facts of the modern world that other than in the musical stylings of Frank Zappa, one size does not fit all. From exercise regimens to entertainment, people increasingly expect goods and services...

  • The robots are coming or are they?

    17/02/2020

    It doesn’t feel like a long time since the FCA and HMT published the Financial Advice Market Review...