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Past events
Nest Insight conference 2022
Date and time: Thursday 7 July
Location: YouTube (Live stream)
Nest Insight’s annual conference returned this summer to share research insights and foster expert debate on issues around retirement and broader financial security. Our sixth annual conference brought together academics, industry, policymakers and other experts working towards long-term financial security for low-and moderate-income workers.
Watch the day’s live-streamed sessions:
Panel discussion | Watch Session
UK pension regulations mandate minimum pension contributions to be made into an individual’s pension by both employers and employees. Beyond this there are a wide range of approaches to supporting employees to save enough to achieve an adequate outcome in retirement through different pension contributions structures. Employers are also increasingly thinking about how to support broader employee financial wellbeing, particularly in the current economic context. But, to what extent is it an employer’s role to support their employees’ financial security? In what ways could an employer have most impact? And what are the barriers to employers doing more?
In this session we shared some early findings from our research programme, supported by abrdn Financial Fairness Trust, exploring opportunities for innovation and voluntary increases in employer contributions to pensions and other financial workplace benefits, and featured a range of different employer perspectives on these questions.
Speakers
- Moderator: Matthew Blakstad, Nest Insight
- Alyshia Harrington-Clark, Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA)
- Jack Jones, Trade Unions Congress (TUC)
- Jo Phillips, Nest Insight
Panel discussion | Watch session
The UK’s auto enrolment programme has created near-universal participation in the private pensions system, dramatically expanding access to one aspect of wealth-building for low- and moderate-income (LMI) households. At the other end of the spectrum, we’ve increasingly focused on supporting short-term financial resilience through tools to support emergency saving. But what about everything else in between? How should we think about the transition from financial resilience through to building wealth and assets? What barriers to building wealth exist for LMI households? Which forms of wealth could or should they be focused on, and what policy and/or market solutions are needed to support these goals?
This panel took a broad view of household finances, exploring the challenges inherent in different forms of work, the structural challenges in the housing market and what all this means for wealth-building among LMI households.
Speakers
- Moderator: Will Sandbrook, Nest Insight
- Lindsay Judge, Resolution Foundation
- Joe Richardson, Living Wage Foundation
- Joanna Smith-Ramani, Aspen Institute Financial Security Program (Aspen FSP)
Keynote | Watch session
Iona Bain is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, speaker and author, and is the UK’s go-to voice on millennial money. Since founding the pioneering Young Money Blog in 2011, she’s gone on to become one of the most respected financial writers of her generation, with a rare combination of accessibility and authority.
Speakers
- Iona Bain, Young Money Blog
Closing remarks | Watch session
Speakers
- Will Sandbrook, Nest Insight
- Claire Chamberlain, BlackRock Social Impact
Visit our YouTube Channel to watch all of our event recordings.
Emergency savings summit
Date: Wednesday 18 May 2022
Location: YouTube (Live stream)
In this brand-new event, dedicated to workplace emergency saving, we shared insights from our research programmes and brought together employers, academics, industry and policymakers to discuss and debate:
- What works in encouraging participation from employees?
- What barriers to implementing workplace emergency savings programmes exist for employers, and for providers? And how could these be surmounted?
- What are the measures of success for emergency savings schemes, beyond take-up?
- What can we learn from international examples?
13.00 – 13.15 | Watch Session
The Minister for Pensions and Financial Inclusion, Guy Opperman MP, delivered a welcoming speech at our Emergency savings summit.
Speakers
- Will Sandbrook, Nest Insight
- Guy Opperman MP
1:15pm – 2:25pm | Watch session
This panel brought together evidence from existing research and real-world case studies to illuminate the challenges and opportunities to support employees who are offered workplace savings into taking part.
Speakers
- Moderator: Gemma Gooch, BlackRock Social Impact
- Tim Flacke, Commonwealth (US)
- Roxana Prisacaru, Money and Pensions Service
- Jo Phillips, Nest Insight
- Michelle Sutton, SUEZ
- Ian Hodson, University of Lincoln
2:45pm – 3:40pm | Watch session
This panel discussed employers’ and providers’ perceptions around workplace saving, including opt-out models, and the challenges to scalability.
Speakers
- Moderator: Will Sandbrook, Nest Insight
- Katie Duxbury, Bupa
- Lauren Langton, incuto
- Asesh Sarkar, Salary Finance
- Jake Attfield, Fair4All Finance
Replay the live stream:
Presentation slides:
- Tim Flacke, Commonwealth (US): BlackRock Emergency Savings Initiative (ESI) Insights from the USA (PDF)
- Jo Phillips, Nest Insight: Learnings from the UK sidecar savings trial (PDF)
- Roxana Prisacaru, the Money and Pensions Service: Payroll savings schemes – building the evidence, making the case, expanding take-up (PDF)