Scottish Widows Workplace Savings Podcast

Can you gamify pensions?

Can you gamify pensions?
Of course you can! Just like learning, health, fitness and other areas of your life, gamification techniques are being applied to encourage better outcomes.
In this fascinating podcast I'm joined by real experts designing gamification into the Scottish Widows Pension experience.

Bringing Digital Banking to Pensions

What can pensions learn from successful adoption of digital banking?
For this episode, Robert Cochran is joined by our own Scottish Widows digital pension and banking guru Phil Allen and  a new to it all digital native Connor Strachan.  The discussion focuses on what pensions  can learn from the massive take up of digital banking, and what dashboards can learn from open banking.

Decumulation - Understanding the Needs of the Nation

What if you take away all the product labels and ask people what is important to them when it comes to funding their retirement and spending their pension savings?
In this podcast I'm joined by Pete Glancy one of the authors of the recent Scottish Widows report  into Decumulation - 61266.pdf (scottishwidows.co.uk) we review the fascinating findings, introduce the retirement decumulation cube and look at the guidance and advice people tell us they want at retirement.
 
We 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
 

An Award Winning Customer Vulnerability Strategy

Creating an Award Winning Customer Vulnerability Strategy
Improving support and outcomes for vulnerable customers has become a real focus for providers over the last few years.  In this podcast we hear from those leading the Workplace Support Teams at Scottish Widows about how vulnerable customers are identified, including some heart stopping stories and they share what has gone into creating the Award Winning Strategy to support our most vulnerable customers.
Superb sharing from Scott Gunderson and Niamh Whelan

The AI Pension Revolution has begun

AI and Pensions - it's already happening
I'm joined by 2 experts explaining how Scottish Widows have deployed AI to improve the colleague and customer experience.  Supporting me on the questions is a rookie student interviewer bringing the younger perspective to the AI Discussion.  
 
It's a fascinating discussion about how AI will revolutionise the pension experience for customers featuring Gillian Henderson, Oojal Jhutti and Maciej Miazek
 

Mindful Pensions and Jimmy Hendrix

In this episode I'm joined by industry big hitter, veteran, free thinker, diversity champion and entertainer David Butcher
David tells us his story of how he went from being Jimmy Hendrix stage manager in Germany to CEO of a large UK pension organisation. He shares how embracing mindfulness helped him recover from some terrible personal tragedies and how his own experience inspired him to launch Mindful Pensions.
David is both a Trustee for Master Trusts including for Scottish Widows and is a member of the Scottish Widows IGC too and he has a vast back catalogue of pension and life experience to share here.

The inside story on scams and scammers

Mind-blowing discussion with one of Lloyd's experts on scams. 
Chris Thomason terrifies by sharing just how far scammers will go to get their hands on your money,  The discussion covers scams we see across the bank hitting both individuals and businesses - and finishes up focussing on how scammers target pension funds too. Chris and his colleagues are designing processes to protect customers.   Along the way we find out just how much a dodgy licence on the black market costs - a key step in getting hold of your identity!

Improving Retirement Outcomes Employer Panel

A live podcast with an audience of Employers.
The focus is on what can be done to improve the retirement outcomes for members of workplace schemes and the panel of employers, comms specialists and policy experts grapple with the issue of pension adequacy.
The Employers have done some amazing things and they tell their stories, expertly hosted by Stuart Hopley of Scottish Widows.  
Panel
Alison Dodd - Employee Benefits Manager at AWE
Ian MacRae - Finance Pension Investment Manager at Jaguar Land Rover
Joe Craig - Comms Expert and Master Storyteller at Quietroom
Peter Glancy - Lloyds Pension Policy Lead

Delving into Data - talking with the experts

A live podcast with an audience of employers. Hear from the data experts keeping the data of over 26 million customers safe and working out how to use it to really help people make more of their finances.  
Starting at a UK level the panel focus right down to a Scottish Widows level, a scheme level and an individual level - I talk data stories and insights with the experts and look at AI user cases - as well as keeping data safe.
 
Robert Cochran hosts this expert panel featuring:
 
Dr Paul Dongha PHD - Lloyds Group Head of Data & AI Ethics
Rich Bates - Lloyds Data and Machine Learning Platform Lead
Adam Foskett - Scottish Widows Workplace Platform Data Lead
 
 

Women and Retirement Panel Discussion 2023

A really lively panel discussion from impassioned experts from a range of backgrounds hosted byJackie Leiper MD at Scottish Widows delving into the detail and focusing in on some key callouts from the Scottish Widows 2023 Women & Retirement Report.
Panel Members
Ranila Ravi-Burselm  -Scottish Widows Intermediary Director
Ellie Austin-Williams -This Girl Talks Money - Founder
Rosie Lacey - Head of Pension and Benefits at Costain
Pete Glancy - Head of Policy at Scottish Widows
Kathryn Fleming -Senior DC Consultant and Partner at Hymans Robertson
Rebecca Robertson - Director and Adviser at Evolution Financial Planning