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Pension power can work wonders
Your workers look after your business. You want to look after them. And all of us want to protect the planet.
It takes the right workplace pension to help do all this. That’s pension power.
ESG and ethical investing: what’s in a name?
In recent years, ESG and ethical investing have become part of mainstream investing.
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Mid-life MOTs… an employees’ tune-up for a better retirement
The journey to retirement is a long one, and plenty can change along the way.
Start up your MOT
Pensions: Learning lessons from our ancestors
Dale Critchley delves into our archives to look at how pensions have changed over the years. And found there’s a lot we can learn...
Dig into the past
Pension power: our best defence against climate change?
Shane O’Brien shows how we can all do our bit to help turn villains into heroes on climate change.
Feel the power
Investing to improve the world we live in
Laura Stewart-Smith explains how providers and pension schemes can keep members aware and engaged with ESG investing.
How you can help
Something we can all afford to invest in our pensions: an hour
Putting aside a little time to track down old pensions could bring be an investment that’s well worth making.
Track your pension
How the Retirement Living Standards can improve pension incomes
The Pension and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA)’s Retirement Living Standards were recently updated. Discover how Aviva embeds the new figures in various initiatives.
Play your part
Are your employees ostriches when it comes to pensions?
With research showing 47% of workers don’t know how to plan for retirement, businesses must step up to avert a retirement income crisis.
Discover our findings
How you can help create a Living Pension for your employees
Steve Jackson, Senior Proposition Manager at Aviva, talks about a Living Pension for all workers and how you can make a difference.
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The gender pension gap is everyone’s problem
Laura Stewart-Smith, Head of Workplace Savings and Retirement at Aviva, talks about the gender pension gap and why it’s an issue.
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Financial wellbeing in the age of COVID-19: how you can help
Employees’ financial wellbeing has always mattered. Now the pandemic has raised more questions than ever, what can employers do to help?
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Why pension pots in a pandemic need extra care
Laura Stewart-Smith outlines how the pandemic has created issues for managing ‘homeless’ pension pots.
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The ambiguous nature of retirement
Encouraging saving for an indeterminate retirement can be challenging, but not impossible.
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What’s driving the move to master trust?
Read our latest insight.
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Has the way we approach our finances changed in the last year?
Dale Critchley looks at how recent events have affected our approach to finances.
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The case for a Living Pension
Steve Jackson, Senior Proposition Manager at Aviva, looks at how a Living Pension standard could make a big difference.
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Wellbeing in the workplace
Your employees are the backbone of your business, so keeping them in shape is a must.
Insight from health professionals and wellbeing specialists to help your people live their best lives… in the workplace and outside it.
Why emotional stability matters when it comes to fixing finances
Our latest research shows how you can help your employees feel financially on track and prepare for the future they want.
Feel financially on track
Why the path to financial fitness can start with a walk in the park
Our new report shows a clear link between physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Get financially fit
5 ways alcohol awareness can be part of your wellbeing strategy
Don Shenker, founder of the Alcohol Health Network, explains why alcohol awareness should be part of a wider wellbeing strategy.
How to raise awareness
Why boosting your employees financial wellbeing could be a game changer
Our Age of Ambiguity research highlights that nearly two in three employees are ‘just getting by financially’.
Make a difference
Wellbeing and business risk: what can’t be left to chance
Debbie Bullock, Aviva’s Wellbeing Lead, on why wellbeing is a business risk that needs to be taken seriously.
Avoiding risk
Menopause is a business issue: what can employers do to help?
Aviva UK Health Medical Director Dr Doug Wright discusses ways to support employees experiencing the menopause and help them stay in work.
Be prepared
World Mental Health Day? Shouldn’t that be every day?
Debbie Bullock, Aviva’s wellbeing lead, looks at how we would all benefit from thinking of every day as a mental health day.
Show your support
Why we shouldn’t get too comfortable in our slippers
To make hybrid working successful it's important to remember what's good about the workplace-based part of our job... and what it can do for employee wellbeing.
More on hybrid working
How to spot if your employees are burning out
Aviva’s Dr Doug Wright looks at how to spot the signs of burn-out and what you and your employees can do to prevent it.
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Seven ways you can help your employees adjust to the relaxing of restrictions
Most of the restrictions we’ve all lived under for over a year are beginning to lift, but that’s something many people will find unsettling. It won’t be easy for many of us to simply return to life as we knew it.
Discover our tips
The emotional impact of opening up society – how it may affect your employees
Debbie Bullock, Aviva’s Wellbeing Lead, talks about why the end of restrictions may not mean the end of anxiety for some people.
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Financial wellbeing in the post-pandemic workplace
Workplace wellbeing packages are stronger with a financial wellbeing element. Here are some reminders about why it’s important.
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Is financial stress affecting your balance sheet?
Dale Critchley, Policy Manger for Workplace Savings & Retirement looks at how employee financial wellbeing benefits businesses and individuals.
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Working with your workers to make sure work works for them!
Aviva’s new report shows the vital role employers can play in improving employees financial and professional wellbeing post-Covid, says Iona Bain.
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Why wellbeing is like a three-legged stool
A well-rounded wellbeing programme must focus on three elements – physical, mental and financial wellbeing – if it’s to do the job properly.
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Thriving in the Age of Ambiguity
Last year we issued our first Age of Ambiguity report, looking at the blurring of lines between home and work life.
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Investing in everyone’s future
It takes ethical investing and action on climate change to help build a future that all of us can look forward to.
You and your employees can play your part… while looking after your own happy ever after.
ESG and ethical investing: what’s in a name?
In recent years, ESG and ethical investing have become part of mainstream investing.
Read more
Pension power: our best defence against climate change?
Shane O’Brien shows how we can all do our bit to help turn villains into heroes on climate change.
Feel the power
Investing to improve the world we live in
Laura Stewart-Smith explains how providers and pension schemes can keep members aware and engaged with ESG investing.
How you can help
Why protecting your business from climate change is essential
Extreme weather is putting British businesses at risk due to a lack of awareness and support according to our latest research, Building Future Communities.
Be prepared
Shaping the climate debate in Earth’s critical year
Steve Waygood examines why 2021 could become a milestone year for collective action on climate change, backed by corporate and governmental policy.
What all of us can do
Why pensions and passions can go hand in hand
Zelda Bentham, Group Head of Sustainability looks at how helping people to invest sustainably through their pension can be a good move.
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ESG funds: it’s all a matter of choice
Zelda Bentham, explains the role of ESG funds in giving employees a sense of choice and control over their pensions.
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5 reasons responsible investing is good for your employees
Investing for environmental, social and governance reasons creates a feel-good factor around your business as well as your people.
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How being sustainable could help your business thrive
Zelda Bentham, Group Head of Sustainability at Aviva, outlines how making your business more sustainable is a positive move for your company.
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Why sustainable pension investment is important to your employees
Sustainable investment isn’t just good for the planet, it's good for business too.
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Practical support
Business sense: quick wins and bright ideas to help you succeed
When it comes to wellbeing, are we really all in the same boat?
No two employees are alike… so to make personalised wellbeing work, we need to look harder at personality.
Find your personality type
The top five risks troubling UK businesses
In our second annual Aviva Risk Insights Report, we asked business leaders what keeps them awake at night.
Be prepared
What’s more personal… than personality?
In this age of ambiguity and change, there’s a lot of talk about the importance of personalisation when it comes to maximising workplace experience for employees – their health, their engagement, their performance.
Discover your personality
Mars and Venus: the gender perspective on working patterns
Aviva’s research exposes the gender divisions behind many people’s pandemic experience – and attitudes towards hybrid working.
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Family-friendly business policy: 5 ways to make it work for you
Anthony Fitzpatrick, Employee Relations and Global Policy Lead, shows how family-friendly policies really can lead to a stronger workforce.
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March 2021 Budget
What’s the impact on employee benefits?
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As SMEs plan to recoup lost trading time - Lockdown gives them time to plan
Chris Andrews looks at what businesses need to consider if they're making up for lost November trading hours by maximising the run up to Christmas.
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Financial education: giving the right message at the right time
Laura Stewart-Smith looks at how to handle communicating with your employees during the pandemic.
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Keeping employees motivated: what you can and can’t do
Rachel Fenoughty, of Aviva’s Learning & Development team, asks how employers can motivate employees in times like these – and concludes that they can’t…
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Why businesses should talk more about employees caring duties
Jonathan Briggs, Group Head Talent Acquisition at Aviva, looks at why businesses should talk about flexible working for carers.
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Why it’s good to keep your employees volunteering
With all the new guidelines surrounding coronavirus, traditional approaches to volunteering have had to change.
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How to help your employees spot scams
Fraudsters rarely take a day off, even in the middle of a global pandemic.
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Business resilience: the 6 factors
We all know what resilience means, but what does it mean for business? We’ve identified six crucial factors…
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Business Continuity Planning: Where do we start?
Pete Holmes, Aviva Risk Consultant, answers everyone’s first question on how to plan for the unexpected.
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5 ways volunteering is good for business
Giving employees time out for volunteering could be the start of something special… for your business too.
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Employee Benefits: A Survey from the UK Workplace
As the working environment changes, so do expectations. This extends beyond the way we work to the way in which that work is rewarded…
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