Press releases
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2022 press releases
- Heart-broken: Almost half (43%) of unmarried couples won't get a life insurance pay-out if their partner dies (30 December) (PDF, 215KB)
- Investing in the UK’s green ambitions: Scottish Widows supports reforming Solvency II (7 December) (PDF, 609KB)
- Single mothers face quarter of a million pound shortfall in pension wealth (16 November) (PDF, 218KB)
- Chirantan Barua to join Lloyds Banking Group as CEO of Scottish Widows (15 November) (PDF, 115KB)
- Time to talk – one in two parents haven’t spoken to their children about a will (9 November) (PDF, 200KB)
- Over a quarter of Brits are worried about becoming victim to a pension scam (7 November) (PDF, 137KB)
- Half of workplace pension holders don’t know how many pots they possess (28 October) (PDF, 88KB)
- UK families committed to helping other generations despite weak household sentiment (26 October) (PDF, 166KB)
- Scottish Widows invests £500 million in new BlackRock Global Corporate ESG Insights Bond Fund (11 October) (PDF, 226KB)
- Over half of UK Black community fear running out of money in retirement (5 October) (PDF, 239KB)
- Four in five looking to change jobs demand green pensions (3 October) (PDF, 212KB)
- Carbon footprint of FTSE100 pensions 7x higher than their company emissions (29 September) (PDF, 243KB)
- Almost half of all households have never accessed financial advice, according to Scottish Widows Future Finances Index (13 July) (PDF, 185KB)
- Scottish Widows calls for asset managers to sign up to UK Stewardship Code by 2024 (4 July) (PDF, 235KB)
- Pension savers risk retiring with £15,000 less, as economic storm brews (29 June) (PDF, 131KB)
- Pension stewardship agenda at crucial tipping point says report (23 June) (PDF, 167KB)
- Scottish Widows pays out 98% of protection claims for the third year (16 May) (PDF, 134KB)
- Self-employed people risk financial hardship, as over half rely on personal savings when out of the office (19 April) (PDF, 95KB)
- Sharpest fall in financial wellbeing in 2 years threatens long term savings plans of millions (6 April) (PDF, 180KB)
- Scottish Widows doubles divestment from firms posing ESG risk to £3bn (28 March) (PDF, 193KB)
- Salary Exchange schemes could save employers £20,000 a year and boost workers pension pots by £42,000 (22 March) (PDF, 276KB)
- ‘Baby Boomer’ generation of women retiring with half the pension of a man (4 March) (PDF, 147KB)
- Scottish Widows announces new Intermediary Distribution Director (1 March) (PDF, 145KB)
- Scottish Widows becomes first UK insurer to publish its roadmap to net zero (3 February) (PDF, 188KB)
- Rising living costs erode household finances at fastest pace since the start of the pandemic (12 January) (PDF, 180KB)
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2021 press releases
- Annuities made accessible: Scottish Widows launches the 'Annuity Bureau' (14 December) (PDF, 205KB)
- Half of UK adults report pandemic mental health impacts with many hiding this from their insurer (1 December) (PDF, 134KB)
- Scottish Widows provides support to bereaved children (22 November) (PDF, 180KB)
- Scottish Widows to invest up to £25bn in companies powering the low carbon transition (17 November) (PDF, 131KB)
- Young women need to save an extra £185k to reach the same retirement income as men (16 November) (PDF, 165KB)
- Find Your Impact: Scottish Widows ESG tool lets you see how sustainable your pension is (9 November) (PDF, 140KB)
- Great minds don’t think alike – why companies need to understand cognitive diversity (9 November) (PDF, 170KB)
- Post-lockdown boost to financial wellbeing fades (29 Sept) (PDF, 182KB)
- Protection is still the elephant in the room despite covid-19 (24 Sept) (PDF, 159KB)
- Employers stress the ticking time bomb of financial wellbeing (24 Sept) (PDF, 146KB)
- Pension Awareness Day - An insider's guide to boosting your pension pot (15 Sept) (PDF, 142KB)
- Pandemic sparks surge in over 50s seeking advice (9 Sept) (PDF, 142KB)
- System overhaul needed as 3.6 million Brits lose track of their pension savings (30 July) (PDF, 140KB)
- Scottish Widows to benefit from acquisition of Embark Group (29 July) (PDF, 125KB)
- Scottish Widows invests in green UK businesses with its rebooted Environmental Fund (27 July) (PDF, 670KB)
- Covid threatens pushing over 50s into pension poverty (22 July) (PDF, 162KB)
- Low earners lose out on £122m in employer pension contributions as COVID puts a squeeze on finances (5 July) (PDF, 151KB)
- Easing of lockdown lifts pressure on UK household finances (21 June) (PDF, 216KB)
- Scottish Widows pays out 98% of protection claims (14 May) (PDF, 114KB)
- Multi-jobbers shortchanged £76 million a year in employer pension contributions (5 May) (PDF, 231KB)
- UK Households Pay Down Debt Through Winter Lockdown (29 March) (PDF, 182KB)
- Scottish Widows adds new virtual GP service to protection offering (22 March) (PDF, 109KB)
- Mind the Gap: Young women face almost 40 years longer at work to reach pensions equality (8 March) (PDF, 222KB)
- Scottish Widows Generates £96 Million Loan Boost For Constantine Wind Energy (15 February) (PDF, 58KB)
- Scottish Widows’ Master Trust unveils new fund range with spotlight on responsible investment (15 February) (PDF, 78KB)
- Lloyds Banking Group appoints new protection director (9 February) (PDF, 149KB)
- Closing the ‘green pensions gap’: Scottish Widows targets net zero across £170bn fund range by 2050 (8 February) (PDF, 146KB)
- UK household finances remain under strain at the end of 2020 (20 January) (PDF, 56KB)
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2020 press releases
- Women need to work beyond 100 to match men's pension pot (11 November) (PDF, 145KB)
- Scottish Widows to divest £440m from companies that pose significant ESG risk (9 November) (PDF, 317KB)
- The small nudges that could make young people £142,000 better off in retirement (23 September) (PDF, 180KB)
- UK savers want greener pensions – but don’t know where to start (1 September) (PDF, 141KB)
- Scottish Widows invests £2 billion in BlackRock’s new fund designed for the transition to a low carbon economy (5 August) (PDF, 150KB)
- Covid-19 threatens retirement plans as auto enrolment reforms run out of steam (29 June) (PDF, 149KB)
- Covid-19 puts retirement plans of 3.1 million in doubt (1 June) (PDF, 286KB)
- Scottish Widows pays out 98.2% of protection claims (4 May) (PDF, 207KB)
- Scottish Widows hires workplace pensions expert to lead ambitious growth plans (29 April) (PDF, 185KB)
- Scottish Widows changes annuities process to support advisers (21 April) (PDF, 258KB)
- Andrew Warwick-Thompson appointed Chair of The Scottish Widows Master Trust (9 April) (PDF, 204KB)
- Scottish Widows unveils responsible investment and stewardship framework (9 March) (PDF, 184KB)
- Scottish Widows announces changes to Independent Governance Committee (25 February) (PDF, 53KB)
- Scottish Widows gives green light to new responsible investment team (17 February) (PDF, 282KB)
- Scottish Widows facilitates £10bn Lloyds Banking Group Pensions Trustees Limited longevity swap (29 January) (PDF, 309KB)
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2019 press releases
- Scottish Widows supports simplicity but calls for consistency in pension statements (23 December) (PDF, 165KB)
- Scottish Widows completes £805m pensioner buy-in with the Electricity North West Group of the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme (18 December) (PDF, 221KB)
- Scottish Widows eyes growth with new Head of Pension Investment Propositions (12 December) (PDF, 193KB)
- Women saving for retirement hits record high despite £78K gender gap (13 November) (PDF, 173KB)
- One in three female entrepreneurs saving nothing for retirement (11 November) (PDF, 144KB)
- GEN Z faces pension shock as research finds stark gap between retirement expectations and reality (28 August) (PDF, 50KB)
- Businesses support extension of auto-enrolment to more workers - CBI/Scottish Widows survey (19 July) (PDF, 43KB)
- People saving adequately reaches record high - yet 8 million think they'll never retire (10 July) (PDF, 49KB)
- Four million Brits don’t do difficult decisions (9 May) (PDF, 256KB)
- Scottish Widows commits to industry claims charter (9 May) (PDF, 240KB)
- Pensions and investments expert Ciaran Barr joins Scottish Widows’ Independent Governance Committee (8 May) (PDF, 215KB)
- Scottish Widows gives a safety net to thousands of families by paying out over 98% of protection claims (17 April) (PDF, 197KB)
- Millennials now look to IFAs for help with ‘adulting’ (4 April) (PDF, 246KB)
- Scottish Widows’ Independent Governance Committee reveals misconceptions of responsible investing (29 March) (PDF, 38KB)
- Scottish Widows puts future focus on new campaign (1 March) (PDF, 190KB)
- Scottish Widows with-profits bonus rates (15 February) (PDF, 405KB)
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2018 press releases
- Emergency cash key to boosting women's pension savings (31 October) (PDF, 396KB)
- Scottish Widows announces award of £30bn asset management contract to Blackrock (12 October) (PDF, 88KB)
- Scottish Widows launches second edition of FundsTalk (19 June) (PDF, 216KB)
- Millions of dads financially vulnerable (12 June) (PDF, 381KB)
- More Scots saving for retirement – But many still not putting away enough (6 June) (PDF, 346KB)
- Under 30s see leap in retirement savings - but one in five young people still saving nothing (6 June) (PDF, 364KB)
- Brits failing to update pension after relationship breakdown (30 May) (PDF, 279KB)
- Nine in ten Brits in danger of financial hardship should serious illness strike (23 May) (PDF, 348KB)
- Scottish Widows paid out 98.99% of life claims in 2017 (18 May) (PDF, 399KB)
- Scottish Widows appoints new Protection Director (30 April) (PDF, 370KB)
- Scottish Widows launches Drip-feed Drawdown to help customers’ pension pots last longer (16 April) (PDF, 224KB)
- More than 10 million Brits expect to work until they’re physically unable to do so (5 April) (PDF, 291KB)
- Scottish Widows to compete for ‘jumbo’ schemes with new flexible workplace savings range (3 April) (PDF, 336KB)
- Scottish Widows’ IGC continues to believe in the five key drivers of value for money (29 March) (PDF, 219KB)
- Scottish Widows Protect now available on UnderwriteMe (13 March) (PDF, 378KB)
- Mothers failing to protect themselves financially (5 March) (PDF, 261KB)
- Scottish Widows launches range of retirement portfolio funds for drawdown (26 February) (PDF, 273KB)
- Scottish Widows to review asset management arrangements and terminate partnership agreements with Standard Life Aberdeen (15 February) (PDF, 300KB)
- One in five Brits are in a financially incompatible relationship (12 February) (PDF, 237KB)
- More than four million renters risk losing house and home due to lack of financial safety net (24 January) (PDF, 352KB)
- Scottish Widows with-profits bonus rates (15 January) (PDF, 70KB)
- Scottish Widows launches new online investment publication for advisers (15 January) (PDF, 179KB)
- Cut the incidental spending and retire with an extra £10k a year (3 January) (PDF, 94KB)
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2017 press releases
- Scottish Widows Bank appoints new Managing Director (21 December) (PDF, 240KB)
- Grandparents cut down on essentials to fork out £932 million to help families afford christmas (06 December) (PDF, 357KB)
- Scottish Widows appoints Jackie Leiper as Distribution Director (29 November) (PDF, 51KB)
- UK Households financially vulnerable should serious illness strike (11 November) (PDF, 266KB)
- Pensions in divorce – women in Scotland lose out on £337 million every year (01 November) (PDF, 307KB)
- Women and Retirement Report 2017 (01 November) (PDF, 5MB)
- Pensions in divorce – Women lose out on £5bn every year (01 November) (PDF, 307KB)
- Self-employed workers risk losing £300bn a year due to lack of financial protection (23 October) (PDF, 260KB)
- LBG acquires Zurich’s UK workplace pensions and savings business (12 October) (PDF, 666KB)
- Women woefully under-protected should serious illness strike (11 October) (PDF, 225KB)
- Scottish Widows launches digital service for workplace pension customers (10 October) (PDF, 430KB)
- Uninsured women could leave families seven months from financial hardship (02 October) (PDF, 265KB)
- Uninsured women in Scotland could leave families seven months from financial hardship (02 October) (PDF, 265KB)
- Scottish Widows Retirement Account Reaches £10 Billion AUM (02 October) (PDF, 334KB)
- UK faces £7 billion annual deficit in elderly care funding (30 August) (PDF, 234KB)
- Scottish Widows launches a Centralised Retirement Proposition guide (19 July) (PDF, 179KB)
- Scottish Widows calls for auto-enrolment rule changes as savings levels stall (05 July) (PDF, 310KB)
- 70% of under 30s risk sleepwalking into pension shortfall (28 June) (PDF, 107KB)
- 3.9 million dads in UK financially unprotected (14 June) (PDF, 227KB)
- Scottish Widows paid out more than 99% of life claims in 2016 (15 May) (PDF, 294KB)
- Scottish Widows highlights importance of financial protection to coincide with Stroke Awareness Month (11 May) (PDF, 281KB)
- Clinical study highlights savings worries risk to mental health (10 May) (PDF, 188KB)
- Scottish Widows completes a £100M bulk annuity transaction with the Monsanto Pension Plan (02 May) (PDF, 263KB)
- Scottish Widows appoints Jackie Leiper as Protection Director (02 May) (PDF, 217KB)
- Need for financial protection becoming increasingly strong says Scottish Widows (05 April) (PDF, 226KB)
- Scottish Widows launches digital toolkit to support surge in demand for defined benefit guidance (04 April) (PDF, 150KB)
- Scottish Widows’ IGC identifies key drivers of value for money for customers (30 March) (PDF, 50KB)
- Six million mums in UK financially vulnerable (21 March) (PDF, 231KB)
- Automatic Enrolment: Government must seize the opportunity and lower earnings trigger (09 March) (PDF, 181KB)
- Scottish Widows comments on Spring Budget 2017 (08 March) (PDF, 199KB)
- Savers could be missing out on receiving up to £22,000 tax-free (03 March) (PDF, 317KB)
- Millions of Britons under-protected should serious illness strike (02 March) (PDF, 224KB)
- Scottish Widows Protect updates critical illness definitions (20 February) (PDF, 259KB)
- Generation rent exposed to financial risk (06 February) (PDF, 60KB)
- Stress and financial pressures of self-employment taking toll on families (02 February) (PDF, 264KB)
- Scottish Widows highlights the nation’s financial vulnerability to coincide with National Heart Month (01 February) (PDF, 343KB)
- Scottish Widows announces £30M investment in its Driving Pensions Value Programme (26 January) (PDF, 220KB)
- Scottish Widows removes early exit fees on all pension policies (23 January) (PDF, 242KB)
- Scottish Widows with-profits bonus rates (12 January) (PDF, 323KB)
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2016 press releases
- Scottish Widows speeds up underwriting process with electronic GP reports (01 December) (PDF, 47KB)
- Parents spend £17,400 to kick start their children’s careers (01 December) (PDF, 251KB)
- Women and Retirement Report 2016 (17 November) (PDF, 2MB)
- Gender savings gap widening as women lag behind in retirement stakes (16 November) (PDF, 154KB)
- Scottish Widows Protect launches annual plan summaries to help advisers engage with their clients (07 November) (PDF, 177KB)
- Scottish Widows announce fund refresh as part of 'Driving Pension Value' programme (02 November) (PDF, 77KB)
- Brits waste 25 billion hours a year online (26 October) (PDF, 240KB)
- 68% of people unaware automatic enrolment pension contributions set to increase (19 October) (PDF, 225KB)
- Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Scottish Widows highlights importance of financial protection (12 October) (PDF, 48KB)
- 4.3 million self-employed people left exposed by financial protection gap (03 October) (PDF, 59KB)
- Scottish Widows highlights the nation's lack of financial protection (30 September) (PDF, 55KB)
- Three-year growth in adequate retirement saving steadies (07 September) (PDF, 81KB)
- Scottish Widows takes 33% market share of the UK bulk annuities market in first half of 2016 (31 August) (PDF, 46KB)
- Optimistic young Brits are seeking a greater later life (29 August) (PDF, 130KB)
- Cautious youngsters seek stability over adventure & uncertainty (24 August) (PDF, 73KB)
- Next generation delay starting a family due to financial concerns (04 August) (PDF, 68KB)
- Women at 30: Shifting priorities cast doubt over long-term financial security (27 July) (PDF, 271KB)
- Analysis shows that customers regard investments as key driver of value for money (20 July) (PDF, 236KB)
- Are Britain's uninsured mums putting household finances at risk? (13 July) (PDF, 230KB)
- 8.2 million UK mortgage holders financially exposed (20 June) (PDF, 46KB)
- Scottish Widows makes protection range more accessible to mortgage advisers (20 June) (PDF, 51KB)
- Scottish Widows completes its largest bulk annuity transaction - a £630 million buy-in with the ICI Pension Fund (14 June) (PDF, 43KB)
- Scottish Widows launches self-serve pension transfer facility (08 June) (PDF, 40KB)
- British Heart Week: Scottish Widows highlights need for financial protection (07 June) (PDF, 58KB)
- Scottish households in danger of financial struggle due to lack of preparation for the unexpected (30 May) (PDF, 41KB)
- Scottish Widows completes £54m bulk annuity transaction with Barloworld UK Pension Scheme (25 May) (PDF, 226KB)
- UK households in danger of financial struggle due to lack of preparation for the unexpected (23 May) (PDF, 41KB)
- Scottish Widows launches Premier pension fund options (16 May) (PDF, 42KB)
- Scottish Widows paid out more than £219 million in life and critical illness claims in 2015 (04 May) (PDF, 41KB)
- Financial protection becoming a decreasing priority says Scottish Widows (03 May) (PDF, 42KB)
- Scottish Widows highlights the nation's financial resilience gap (25 April) (PDF, 42KB)
- Scottish Widows takes action to move customers into pension freedoms-friendly default fund (25 April) (PDF, 41KB)
- As 110 cases of bowel cancer are diagnosed every day Scottish Widows emphasises value of financial protection (04 April) (PDF, 42KB)
- Scottish Widows' IGC calls for industry-wide customer benchmarking of pension providers (31 March) (PDF, 43KB)
- The new 'YOLO' generation gambling financial future by splashing cash in 30s and 40s (30 March) (PDF, 197KB)
- Scots saving more but struggling to juggle short- and long-term priorities (30 March) (PDF, 37KB)
- Scottish Widows Digital Innovation Lab creates interactive Employer Hub (24 March) (PDF, 36KB)
- Scottish Widows creates checklist for 10,000 employers facing triennial auto-enrolment reviews (21 March) (PDF, 45KB)
- Scottish Widows comments on the 2016 budget (16 March) (PDF, 38KB)
- Scottish Widows believes 'pensions dashboard' must be single source of truth from day one (08 March) (PDF, 49KB)
- More time, less money: UK workers willing to sacrifice pay for greater flexibility (02 March) (PDF, 47KB)
- Scottish Widows to remove exit fees on all workplace pensions (01 March) (PDF, 40KB)
- As Mother's Day approaches, millions of mums remain financially unprotected (March) (PDF, 42KB)
- Scottish Widows appoints Claire Burston as Head of Communications (February) (PDF, 36KB)
- Britons woefully under-protected should serious illness strike, says Scottish Widows (29 February) (PDF, 41KB)
- Scottish Widows supports advisers with protection roadshows (24 February) (PDF, 42KB)
- Scottish Widows with-profits bonus rates (11 January) (PDF, 43KB)
- Work tipping the scales for UK families as only a third claim to have a healthy ‘work family balance’ (07 January) (PDF, 49KB)