Press releases

2021 Press releases

• Scottish Widows invests in green UK businesses with its rebooted Environmental Fund (27 July)
• Covid threatens pushing over 50s into pension poverty (22 July)
• Low earners lose out on £122m in employer pension contributions as COVID puts a squeeze on finances (5 July)
• Easing of lockdown lifts pressure on UK household finances (21 June)
• Scottish Widows pays out 98% of protection claims (14 May)
• Multi-jobbers shortchanged £76 million a year in employer pension contributions (5 May)
• UK Households Pay Down Debt Through Winter Lockdown (29 March)
• Scottish Widows adds new virtual GP service to protection offering (22 March)
• Mind the Gap: Young women face almost 40 years longer at work to reach pensions equality (8 March)
• Scottish Widows Generates £96 Million Loan Boost For Constantine Wind Energy (15 February)
• Scottish Widows’ Master Trust unveils new fund range with spotlight on responsible investment (15 February)
• Lloyds Banking Group appoints new protection director (9 February)
• Closing the ‘green pensions gap’: Scottish Widows targets net zero across £170bn fund range by 2050 (8 February)
• UK household finances remain under strain at the end of 2020 (20 January)

2020 Press releases

• Women need to work beyond 100 to match men's pension pot (11 November)
• Scottish Widows to divest £440m from companies that pose significant ESG risk (9 November)
• The small nudges that could make young people £142,000 better off in retirement (23 September)
• UK savers want greener pensions – but don’t know where to start (1 September)
• Scottish Widows invests £2 billion in BlackRock’s new fund designed for the transition to a low carbon economy (5 August)
• Covid-19 threatens retirement plans as auto enrolment reforms run out of steam (29 June)
• Covid-19 puts retirement plans of 3.1 million in doubt (1 June)
• Scottish Widows pays out 98.2% of protection claims (4 May)
• Scottish Widows hires workplace pensions expert to lead ambitious growth plans (29 April)
• Scottish Widows changes annuities process to support advisers (21 April)
• Andrew Warwick-Thompson appointed Chair of The Scottish Widows Master Trust (9 April)
• Scottish Widows unveils responsible investment and stewardship framework (9 March)
• Scottish Widows announces changes to Independent Governance Committee (25 February)
• Scottish Widows gives green light to new responsible investment team (17 February)
• Scottish Widows facilitates £10bn Lloyds Banking Group Pensions Trustees Limited longevity swap (29 January)

2019 Press releases

• Scottish Widows supports simplicity but calls for consistency in pension statements (23 December)
• Scottish Widows completes £805m pensioner buy-in with the Electricity North West Group of the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme (18 December)
• Scottish Widows eyes growth with new Head of Pension Investment Propositions (12 December)
• Women saving for retirement hits record high despite £78K gender gap (13 November)
• One in three female entrepreneurs saving nothing for retirement (11 November)
• GEN Z faces pension shock as research finds stark gap between retirement expectations and reality (28 August)
• Businesses support extension of auto-enrolment to more workers - CBI/Scottish Widows survey (19 July)
• People saving adequately reaches record high - yet 8 million think they'll never retire (10 July)
• Four million Brits don’t do difficult decisions (9 May)
• Scottish Widows commits to industry claims charter (9 May)
• Pensions and investments expert Ciaran Barr joins Scottish Widows’ Independent Governance Committee (8 May)
• Scottish Widows gives a safety net to thousands of families by paying out over 98% of protection claims (17 April)
• Millennials now look to IFAs for help with ‘adulting’ (4 April)
• Scottish Widows’ Independent Governance Committee reveals misconceptions of responsible investing (29 March)
• Scottish Widows puts future focus on new campaign (1 March)
• Scottish Widows with-profits bonus rates (15 February)