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If there is one message that rings loudest from REBA and Aviva’s roundtable held in February, it is this: employers are far more powerful in shaping pension adequacy than they have ever been given credit for, as REBA’s content director Jo Gallacher explores.

With the latest UK pension fund takeover announced between Standard Life and Aegon UK last week, REBA’s content writer Gill Wadsworth considers how the consolidation of UK pension funds will impact employers.

From April 2029 the government will restrict NICs relief on salary sacrifice into pension schemes to the first £2,000 of pension contributions. REBA’s writer Gill Wadsworth looks at what this means for workplace retirement savings and how employers can make the most of the existing regime.

Personalisation, data-driven strategies and a holistic approach are key to the future of workplace financial wellbeing, explains Vicky East, head of client relations at WEALTH at work.

Hannah English, senior DC consultant at Hymans Robertson, details how employers can strike the right balance between offering support and encouraging employee accountability when it comes to retirement adequacy.

Lydia Fearn, partner at LCP, explores the opportunities and challenges facing employers as the upcoming pension reforms take shape.

Writing in REBA’s Financial Wellbeing Research 2025, Jo Phillips, director of research and innovation at Nest Insight, details how behavioural support can be a more effective route to boosting employee financial security.

Vicky East, head of client relations at WEALTH at work, discusses the findings of REBA’s Financial Wellbeing Research 2025 to explore one of the most overlooked groups in the workforce: mid‑career employees. 

Anna Brain, senior policy researcher and project lead for the UK Pensions Framework Project at the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI), explores the critical link between health and wealth.

Watch Kate Smith, head of public affairs at Aegon, as she explores the reasons behind pension inequality in the UK.

With a generous pension contribution structure in place, employee engagement is the next challenge. Oliver Porter, pensions and benefits manager at Clarksons, outlines how it plans to keep pensions relevant in this article taken from REBA’s Financial Wellbeing Research 2025.