The Debrief

Welcome to The Debrief, where opinion, insights and information from our experts lets you quickly and easily see what's new, what's next and what's exciting in our industry. Insight, inspirations and ideas to help you and your clients stay one step ahead.

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Retirement resilience - why protection is the foundation

In the first of a series following the latest Scottish Widows Retirement Report, Catherine Trimble considers how health disruption can derail saving, and how protection helps keep pension plans, confidence and choices on track.

Built on assumptions

The restart problem: why pension saving interruptions rarely bounce back

In the second of a series following the latest Scottish Widows Retirement Report, Catherine Trimble explores the “restart problem”, showing why interruptions quietly damage long‑term outcomes and how building income resilience can help keep retirement plans on track when life disrupts earnings.

The restart problem

Later career shocks hit harder: when there is no time left to make it back

​In the third and final article of a series following the latest Scottish Widows Retirement Report, Catherine Trimble discusses why later life disruption hits harder, and how protection can safeguard income, contributions and options.​

Later career shocks hit harder

Scottish Widows Insights Hub

For our view on the latest trends in the adviser platform market and topical insight and news from our investment experts, please visit our insight hub.  This is where you’ll find our latest Platform focused articles, vodcasts, Investment Perspectives and our research including the Confidence Barometer, and Paraplanner Survey.

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