Scottish Widows Workplace Savings Podcast

About Scottish Widows Workplace Savings Podcast

Scottish Widows Workplace Savings - entertaining data driven and sometimes offbeat stories about what’s going on in workplace savings. Ideal for people involved in or interested in pensions. Guests include Pension Ministers, CEOs, Employee Benefit Consultants, Employers, Trustees - stories from the frontline of Workplace Pensions hosted by an award winner -  2025 Pension Marketer of the year Robert Cochran. Pension Dashboards, Legislation, Customer Stories, Trustee Views, Private Markets and VFM, AI and Tik Tok- all feature in recent episodes.

Publisher

Scottish Widows

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 May 2023

Latest episode

24 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

50 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Sept 2026

   2026 Retirement Report – Part 3: Tech & AI in retirement decision making

   Technology is changing how people engage with their finances, and retirement planning is no exception.The latest Scottish Widows Retirement Report 2026: Part 3 explores how technology, from pension dashboards and open finance to AI-powered support, could help people better understand their pensions and make more informed retirement decisions. The research found growing openness to AI, with around one in three people saying they would trust AI tools to help with pension decision-making and 42% comfortable using AI to explain pension jargon.In this episode, Robert Cochran is joined by Derek Shanks, Technology Director, and Leslee Ross, Business Platform Lead, to discuss the findings and explore how AI could help tackle some of the key challenges facing consumers today.From improving financial education and confidence to narrowing the advice gap and lowering barriers to engagement, the conversation looks at how technology could support people throughout their retirement journey. Scottish Widows are the first workplace pensions provider to put conversational AI into savers' hands through Invest AI, and the only provider participating in the FCA's Anthropic Supercharged Sandbox, so Derek and Leslee take listeners behind the scenes to discuss the early learnings, how AI tools are tested, governed and trained, why trust remains central to successful adoption, and what the growing use of AI by consumers and advisers could mean for the future of financial services.The discussion also explores the wider implications of the Mills Review and where AI-powered financial support could go next.Read the report: Scottish Widows Retirement Report 2026: Part 3

2. 

   7 Sept 2026

   2026 Retirement Report – Part 2: Retirement Income Decisions

   Host Robert Cochran interviews Pete Glancy, Head of Pensions Policy at Scottish Widows, exploring retirement income decisions and solutions for navigating a complex future.

3. 

   24 Aug 2026

   The Gender Pension Gap: Going Beyond the Research

   Business Development Director Susan Hope interviews industry experts Kelly Parsons, Tracey Gloyne, and James Biggs about closing the gender pension gap by examining life's financial impacts on women's retirement.

Who has been a guest on Scottish Widows Workplace Savings Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Pete Glancy
• Kelly Parsons
• Tracey Gloyne
• James Biggs
• Alan Morahan

Reach and audience

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

12 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 19 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

26

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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