YBS Share Plans has teamed up with Secondsight to offer financial education in the workplace. Secondsight has created the share plan online portal to educate employees on the advantages of the plan offered to them. Powered by it's employee engagement portal, [..]
YBS Share Plans, part of the UK’s second largest building society, has teamed up with Secondsight to offer its corporate clients access to financial education in the workplace. Secondsight, the multi-award winning employee benefits specialist, has created the [..]
Discussing an employee's finances in the workplace can be a taboo subject, but Darren Laverty explains why this shouldn't be the case. Discussing an employee’s personal financial issues in the workplace is a subject hesitantly approached at best; for the [..]
Ricoh UK sees 1,000 requests for follow-on financial education workshops since scheme launch The global technology organisation introduced Make Your Money Count financial awareness presentations, provided by Secondsight, for its 2,500 UK-based employees at the end [..]
More employers are recognising the importance of supporting employees’ financial wellbeing in the workplace with education programmes. Financial education is a benefit that is both valued by employees and valuable to the employer in the sense that employees are [..]
The financial services profession witnessed a real flurry of people keen to take advantage of this new freedom from the outset; people who had – undoubtedly – been waiting. But this high demand soon fizzled out and many have become stuck in a catch 22 [..]
A prosperous retirement is the product of careful planning On the 6th April new pension changes takes effect. It brings in legislation which may have a material impact on the pension plans of the nation’s highest earners, directors and senior management. [..]
Research undertaken in 2014 by Secondsight found that 67% of the working population receive no financial education from their employers. Only 20% of employees had a coherent financial plan and a third claimed to have only a vague idea about money management. Half [..]
Recent research published by The Open University Business School and Share Radio – highlighted the fact that two thirds of UK employees have never received financial education. The research also found that, while four in five (81%) employees want personal [..]
Top earners could be hit with unexpected tax bills following new pension rules in April and more employees will hit lifetime allowance if they don't take action now Radical changes to pension schemes being introduced by government from 6thApril 2016 could leave [..]
Director at Secondsight, Ian Bird responded to yesterday's Autumn Statement and the changes announced to pensions. The weekly basic state pension will rise by £3.35 and taking the flat rate state pension to £119.30 from April – the biggest increase in pension [..]
The Chancellor announced in his Autumn Statement yesterday some changes to pensions. Ian Bird, Director at Secondsight shares his thoughts on the announcement and the need to financially educate employees. “We are seeing greater pressure on companies to give [..]
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