Future Focus and Covid-19: A rapid evidence review
An assessment of the likely impacts of COVID-19 on retirement and later life planning among adults in the UK, undertaken for the Money and Pensions Service.
A comprehensive and replicable review of all relevant studies on a topic with a summary of findings
An indicative review of a sample of relevant studies on a topic with a summary of findings
Topics: Pensions and Retirement Planning
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2021
Consumer engagement with pensions & SIPPs
A survey of UK adults by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) to provide insights on consumers’ engagement with and understanding of pensions and SIPPs and awareness of FSCS protection
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Pensions and Retirement Planning
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2022
Planning and preparing for retirement
A nationally representative survey of adults aged 40-75 years to explore their attitudes and behaviours towards retirement planning, undertaken by NatCen for the UK Department for Work and Pensions
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Pensions and Retirement Planning
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2022
In this insight report, Independent Age highlight new research commissioned from City, University of London into income dynamics in later life, set out their policy calls for tackling poverty in later life, and discuss the different ways of defining and measuring poverty.
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Pensions and Retirement Planning, Credit Use and Debt
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2022
Small Steps to a Better Future
Invesco, Nest Insight and language strategy experts maslansky + partners conducted research to identify the barriers to retirement income planning for people in their late 30s, 40s and early 50s, and to see whether simple changes to the language used to talk about pension saving could help scheme members overcome these barriers.
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Pensions and Retirement Planning
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2021
Retirement Saving in the UK 2021: Member experience from NEST
Nest Insight’s fourth annual research report describes the experience of people saving for their retirement through the Nest pension scheme.
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Pensions and Retirement Planning
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2021
Smarter Signposting to Pensions Guidance
The Smarter Signposting project was a collaboration between Royal London and the Financial Capability Lab. The pilot explored ways that financial institutions could use customers transaction data to identify customers (≤70 years) who would benefit most from independent pensions guidance. It also tested three messages (via email and letter) informed by behavioural science to engage them.
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Pensions and Retirement Planning, Financial Capability
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2021
Barriers to planning for retirement and later life
A review of literature on barriers to planning for retirement and later life.
A comprehensive and replicable review of all relevant studies on a topic with a summary of findings
An indicative review of a sample of relevant studies on a topic with a summary of findings
Topics: Pensions and Retirement Planning
Country/Countries: United Kingdom, United States, China
Year of publication: 2020
Supporting Emergency Saving: Briefing paper 1
An early evaluation of the policy around sidecar savings, based on learning from implementing a trial of a hybrid workplace savings product designed to improve both emergency savings and pension provision
Information about the programme design and rationale
Evidence about Financial Capability outcomes for programme participants
Evidence that the Financial Capability outcomes were caused by the programme
Evidence about programme implementation, feasibility, and piloting
Evidence about relative costs and benefits of the programme
Topics: Saving, Pensions and Retirement Planning
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2020
The New Social Contract Shaping a retirement ready workforce
A short report – a companion to a longer existing study - based on survey data about the role of employers in pension saving
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Pensions and Retirement Planning
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2020
Balancing savings and debt: Findings from online experiment
An US-based online experiment exploring why some people choose to retain savings rather than use them to pay off debt, even when the debt interest rate is higher than the savings rate
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Saving, Pensions and Retirement Planning
Country/Countries: United States
Year of publication: 2021
A qualitative and quantitative research and insight study looking at the barriers to engagement with pension contributions and if language can be better used to nudge consumers into saving more
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Pensions and Retirement Planning
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2020
Retirement saving in the UK 2020
An insight report based on data from members of NEST, the National Employment Savings Trust, covering members’ experiences of saving in the Nest pension scheme
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Pensions and Retirement Planning
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2021
The forgotten generation? Retirement income prospects GenX
An interim report based on a survey and qualitative panels with people in the UK aged 40-55 about their retirement prospects.
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Pensions and Retirement Planning
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2020
Talking with self-employed people about retirement saving
This 2020 evaluation summarises the findings from two email messaging field trials that tested self-employed people’s engagement with different retirement saving messages.
Information about the programme design and rationale
Evidence about Financial Capability outcomes for programme participants
Evidence that the Financial Capability outcomes were caused by the programme
Evidence about programme implementation, feasibility, and piloting
Evidence about relative costs and benefits of the programme
Topics: Pensions and Retirement Planning
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2020
Digital advertising in financial services
This 2020 paper uses new research evidence to set out the FSCP’s concerns about digital marketing in both the high-cost credit market and the pensions-to-cash market.
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Pensions and Retirement Planning, Credit Use and Debt
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2020
Testing retirement communications
An evaluation to assess the impact of interventions designed to increase individuals’ use of the free pensions guidance available to them and engagement with their pensions.
Information about the programme design and rationale
Evidence about Financial Capability outcomes for programme participants
Evidence that the Financial Capability outcomes were caused by the programme
Evidence about programme implementation, feasibility, and piloting
Evidence about relative costs and benefits of the programme
Topics: Saving, Pensions and Retirement Planning
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2018
An evaluation to assess the impact of the ‘Stronger Nudge’ interventions on the proportion of people who receive Pension Wise guidance before they access their pension savings.
Information about the programme design and rationale
Evidence about Financial Capability outcomes for programme participants
Evidence that the Financial Capability outcomes were caused by the programme
Evidence about programme implementation, feasibility, and piloting
Evidence about relative costs and benefits of the programme
Topics: Pensions and Retirement Planning
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2020
How financially coping Americans plan, save and invest
This 2020 report analyses planning, saving, and investing behaviours and obstacles faced by more than half of the US population, classed as ‘financially coping’.
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Saving, Pensions and Retirement Planning, Credit Use and Debt, Budgeting and Keeping Track
Country/Countries: United States
Year of publication: 2020
Preparing for tomorrow by fixing today
This 2018 report aims to further understanding of the causes and effects of financial health challenges for Americans before and during retirement.
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Saving, Pensions and Retirement Planning
Country/Countries: United States
Year of publication: 2018
