28 Aug 2024
by Maggie Williams

Future of Pensions Summit 2024: What to expect at REBA's upcoming event

Pensions might be a slow-build form of saving, but changes in legislation, employee behaviours and societal trends are transforming retirement planning at breakneck speed 

REBA's director Debi O'Donovan chairing a panel session during REBA's Future of Pensions Summit 2023

 

Reward and benefits directors need to constantly refresh their knowledge and stay ahead of new trends to ensure that pension spend delivers value for money, and employees can enjoy an adequate standard of living when they retire.   

REBA’s Future of Pensions Summit gives stakeholders from across the pensions, reward and benefits industry the opportunity to share knowledge and make valuable contacts. 

It explores the actions that practitioners, providers and consultants must take to build a future-looking pensions and retirement strategy that is compliant and fit for purpose. 

The invite-only event  includes short, focused spotlight talks from policy influencers such as The Pensions Regulator, ABI and Money and Pensions Service; panel debates with reward and benefits experts from organisations such as Wolseley, Grant Thornton UK , Wienerberger  and Kantar; and workshops offering insights from industry providers such as Barnett Waddingham, Legal & General, Nest and Isio.   

Key themes from this year’s agenda include:   

Preparing for strategy change  

  • Directions in DC: current trends and actions in improving standards and performance of pensions for employers  
  • Designing pensions for tomorrow: what’s coming and what it will mean for employers and employees  
  • Challenges facing the UK pensions system and implications for retirement

Engaging employees with pensions  

  • Making retirement personal makes it matter: taking employees on the journey from ostrich to owl
  • Joining up pensions savings for employees – what’s the direction of travel and how can providers help? 
  • Empowering retirement: harnessing AI to transform pension engagement

Addressing pensions adequacy  

  • Creating a savings culture in the UK: what role employers can play? 
  • Closing the pensions adequacy gap 
  • Exploring new pension benefits approaches to tackle DC pensions inequality

Value for money in DC pensions

  • The drive for value from pensions spend: strategies for employers and their employees. 
  • Getting best value in DC pensions 
  • New thinking for DC – using governance to drive value and engagement

DC scheme design  

  • Building better financial futures – carving the way for an effective and inclusive pensions strategy. 
  • How long-term savings providers are responding to the changing pensions landscape. 
  • State of the nation on workplace pensions and impact on reward and benefits 
  • DC investment round-up

The summit is invitation-only and is open to reward and benefits practitioners with responsibility for pensions. If you would like to attend, please contact Jessica Feeney