Case studies & interviews

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.

During REBA’s November webinar, Travis Perkins’ group benefits manager, Helen McGowan, explained how their new online platform brings their healthcare benefits together across their varied employee base.

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. 

Keeping benefits information “fresh” and “live” is essential to keep track of global benefits spend and uptake, explained Lisa Boardman, reward manager at Edrington, during a recent REBA webinar.

Employers are rethinking their employee value proposition (EVP) and moving towards more harmonised health benefits, said Marc Singh-Jones, head of commercial products and partnerships at Simplyhealth, during REBA's recent webinar.

David Bourne, market development leader at Mercer Marsh Benefits, explores how demographic insight, predictive modelling and targeted prevention can pivot benefits from a cost to an investment. This article is taken from REBA’s Forecasting future health costs: developing sustainable employer-funded health strategies report, which considers how employers can lead through complexity rather than simply trying to contain costs. 

AI-gathered data will both free up reward professionals’ time and enable them to be truly strategic and manage people risks.

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.

Donna Christie, head of HR and reward at Dana Petroleum details how personalised, inclusive and clear communication of existing benefits is underpinning its EVP. This article was originally published in REBA’s Financial Wellbeing Research 2025.

The key to many financial wellbeing strategies is supporting employees' financial resilience. Watch this video featuring Vicky East, head of client relations at WEALTH at work, as she explores how employers can strengthen financial resilience.

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.

Tim Goodchild, director, international benefits at video game publisher Take-Two Interactive, spoke to REBA’s content editor Dawn Lewis about how to approach global benefits harmonisation across multiple jurisdictions. Goodchild will be at the REBA Future Forum on 20 November, as part of the ‘meet the case studies’ session. 

“We’re confident that our focus on prevention has already reduced our claims trajectory,” says Jo Mercer, global benefits, senior manager at Freshfields. This article, taken from REBA’s Forecasting future health costs: Developing sustainable employer-funded health strategies report, details how a data-led approach to prevention is moving the dial on employee health.

In October 2024, Royal Mail made history by launching the UK's first Collective Defined Contribution (CDC) pension arrangement, marking a revolutionary shift in workplace pensions.  Natalie Adeoba, senior pensions manager at Royal Mail, explains the ins and outs of CDC and how it is benefiting the organisation and employees alike.

Discover how flexible pension strategies can unlock better outcomes for savers, watch Ruth Persian, associate director at Nest Insight share fresh insights in this video interview.