All member engagement articles – Page 19
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FeaturesNo gain without pain: Children and financial education
Any Other Business: Learning to manage money from an early age could help children get used to deferring gratification, potentially proving invaluable in saving for later life.
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OpinionPensions for the hashtag generation
From the blog: The ‘millennial’ generation – broadly defined as the cohort born between 1980 and the late 1990s – is now the largest working-age demographic in the UK, and will represent some 75 per cent of the global workforce by 2025.
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Features
New comms strategy charges up member contributions at Schneider Electric
PLSA Annual Conference 2016: Schneider Electric has overhauled its defined contribution engagement strategy, as research shows that members want solutions that enable them to make decisions and implement them easily.
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FeaturesTelefónica rings the changes with pensions modelling tool
A new online pensions modeller is being launched for defined contribution members of the Telefónica UK Pension Plan, but some experts have questioned the benefit of such tools.
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OpinionWhat to look for in a mastertrust
From the blog: It’s an important time for retirement savings. The introduction of freedom and choice has brought with it references to a ‘brave new world’ for pensions and the ‘biggest pensions shake-up for a generation’.
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OpinionNext stop: Retirement
Editorial: Thursday’s Pension Awareness Day has demonstrated that pensions needn’t be boring. The campaign created by communications consultancy Pension Geeks to raise public awareness about retirement planning and old age income is refreshingly grassroots-orientated and hands-on.
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FeaturesShell becomes latest scheme to push electronic comms
The Shell Contributory Pension Fund has begun requesting email addresses from members as it takes the first step towards electronic communication, the latest in a long line of schemes to do so.
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Opinion
All aboard the pensions bus
From the blog: This week a double decker bus is cruising down the country with one objective: to drive engagement with retirement saving. As Pension Awareness Day arrives, there is even more focus on making long-term saving more interesting.
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Pensions dashboard prototype to launch by next spring
The Treasury has said it will be working with 11 pension providers to release a prototype of the pensions dashboard by March 2017.
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OpinionTime to address the next savings hurdle
From the blog: Heralded as a "tremendous success" by the Work and Pensions Committee in its May report, it’s true that auto-enrolment has opened up retirement saving.
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OpinionDashboard: Put users at the heart of the pensions system
The UK has one of the most complex pension systems in the world. In fact, research by MoneyFacts showed that 65 per cent of people of working age don’t know where or how best to save money for retirement.
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OpinionYou might have changed your default strategy, but have scheme members?
From the blog: Consumer group Which? recently questioned whether – following the pension reforms – it is still appropriate for workplace customers to remain in default strategies targeted at annuities. As ever there is no black and white answer.
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OpinionMaxims for all schemes in member communications
Emma Douglas from Legal & General Investment Management praises the power of clear communication and positivity when it comes to engaging members with their ‘future opportunity funds’.
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OpinionTime to shoot the messenger
From the blog: Communications can help people get to grips with their long-term savings objectives, but if we do it the wrong way our attempts to help could fail – no matter how important the message.
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Opinion
Member communications: How much information is too much?
Showing interest in their defined contribution pension pots can be a struggle even for seasoned industry professionals, so how and what should schemes communicate to get maximum engagement from their members?
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News
Deluge of information stifles retirement choices
An excess of information on the pension freedoms risks poor outcomes for “procrastinating” defined contribution savers, experts have warned, meaning the industry must improve member communication and engagement.
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OpinionThe human psychology behind pension communications
Communication specialist Like Mind’s Jerry Edmondson explains what motivates people when they decide whether or not to do something – such as saving into a pension fund.
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News
PPI calls for industry to judge charges holistically
Schemes should not put undue focus on charges when assessing value for money, the Pensions Policy Institute said last week, after research showed charge levels do not necessarily correlate with outcomes.
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Features
GMP top priority this year but trustees could be missing the bigger picture
Respondents to consultancy Capita’s 'Pension scheme insight report' cited guaranteed minimum pension reconciliation, member communications and derisking as their main concerns for 2016, but experts say there are more acute challenges that schemes fail to address.
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ABI launches consultation on jargon-busting to empower members
The Association of British Insurers has this week launched a consultation and draft guide aimed at simplifying the language used to explain freedom and choice to savers.