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Smart builds further on its award-winning culture, being certified in the US, UK and Poland

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Why we need innovation in decumulation

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Celebrating a year of success

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To help our partners grow, we created our design system that can scale with them

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Panel: Why supporting individuals through retirement could be more important than helping them save

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Building retirement solutions to positively impact people’s financial wellbeing and future

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In this article we explain how we used tree testing to measure and improve the effectiveness of our information architecture

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The new role has been introduced as part of the continued growth in the company’s Keystone global retirement technology platform

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How regulatory changes impact retirement technology

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24 hours of hacking at Smart

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Transforming an idea into a business solution in just 24 hours

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This year’s hackathon inspired our colleagues to think creatively

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Keystone is a new technology platform developed to solve the global retirement problem

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World leading retirement technology provider finds new home in one of the world’s foremost retirement savings markets

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The Smart solution to the global retirement technology challenge

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'Smart Avatar Virtual Assistant’ – a genuine first in the worlds of fintech and pensions

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It’s not always easy to find out what users are trying to do when they interact with your product, or where they need more help – this article explains how we used site search analytics to learn about user intent, leading us to design a new feature

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From launch to 700 colleagues across the globe

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A few weeks ago I was invited to give a presentation at the EU Parliament, as part of an IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection) committee public hearing

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Scheme member engagement is an industry-wide problem – this article explains how the innovation team at Smart uses the B=MAP framework to facilitate behaviour change, and how it helped us create a successful “first time sign-in” feature

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A truly digital service will empower members

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The new role has been introduced as part of the company’s ongoing commitment to improve its environmental and social footprint

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IPE Panel Talk Post

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Successes of 2021 will result in an incredible 2022

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The announcement follows Smart’s recent £165 million Series D funding round

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Innovation must lead regulation to give users the experience they now come to expect – technology is the only solution

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Discover how savers think about retirement in one of the world’s best retirement savings markets, at a time when a major pension savings reform is on the horizon, in our research report

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Smart has passed £2.2bn assets under management on its platform, growing by more than 2,000% in the 3 years since announcing the £100 million milestone.

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Featuring YouGov research commissioned by Smart, the report looks at how the retirement industry will continue to develop in The Netherlands.

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Paul Toon joins Smart as international M&A activity ramps up

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As a platform offering technology solutions to exactly this problem, financial institutions, like Smart, have the ability to empower others across the globe to be successful in DC

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Neil Murrin joins the global retirement technology firm from Trainline as international growth speeds up further 

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Smart's latest round of funding involves £165 million investment led by Chrysalis Investments

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DWS joins Chrysalis Investments, Barclays, J.P. Morgan, Legal & General Investment Management, Link Group and Natixis Investment Managers as investors in Smart

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The market is changing, and quickly, with a passion to drive more efficient and scalable software.

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Smart Retire designed to address the missing link in retirement savings

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Smart interviews 2,000 Australians about their opinion on retirement and the impact of COVID-19

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Smart now one of the leading providers in RetireTech

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As many firms discuss the future of the office Smart signs 15 year lease for London based 6-floor global HQ

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Investment will further strengthen Smart’s global retirement technology platform offering, and expansion into the world’s largest retirement markets

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Smart publishes research on retirement perceptions in the UK and the impact of COVID-19

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Smart's hackathons allow teams to extend their capabilities and deliver innovation

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User-centric design is the core of Smart's new product – Smart Retire

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"when our results came in, we knew we had achieved something really special – the level of feedback, trust and passion for Smart was amazing"

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The report takes a look at how the retirement industry will develop across the globe following the coronavirus pandemic

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Despite an incredibly challenging year for businesses the world over, we’ve been able to sustain our award-winning culture, ultimately achieving a ranking of 22nd on the 2021 UK’s Best Workplaces™ large organisation list published by Great Place to Work® UK.

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Smart celebrates amazing successes despite a year full of new challenges

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If you work with Smart, you’ll know that a digital-first approach defines everything that we do.

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Smart shares research methods used during lockdown for the development of the revolutionary Smart Retire

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Comes as new research finds that 1 in 8 UK adults aged 55+ are to delay retirement due to Covid pandemic.

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Follows global restructure in which Jamie Fiveash was announced as CEO of Smart’s UK business

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The team will launch a US recordkeeping solution for Pooled Employer Plans in time for SECURE Act 2.0 roll-out

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With retirement savings industry Veteran Jodan Ledford at the helm, Smart enters the US market with industry adoption already on a par with the country's second-largest recordkeeper by number of plans.

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Five Smart employees are shortlisted for the prestigious Women in Pensions Awards

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Fiveash joined Smart as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) in 2017.

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The changes are announced following the close of a recent funding round and reflects a new international structure.

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Smart Pension comment on HM Treasury 'Pensions Tax Relief Administration' call for evidence

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Smart's Pension Walkthrough tool designed to help people better manage their pensions

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Smart continues to support customers during unprecedented times

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Natixis Investment Managers, one of the world’s largest asset management firms, has made a strategic investment in Smart.

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Smart has announced two non-executive appointments to its main company Board.

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A mini-documentary produced by BBC StoryWorks for Innovation In Finance week, members of the Smart Team talk a little about how we are changing pensions around the globe and at home, starring our friends at ArenaFlowers.com.

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Smart Pension has announced a new partnership with London-based FinTech DueDil, a company intelligence platform that provides unique insights on more than 50 million companies worldwide.

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In this video, we introduce Smart's Content Guild, our dedicated team of content designers and discuss why plain English is so important in pension communications.

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As a responsible business, we are following government advice to ensure the safety of our staff, customers and members. This is of paramount importance to us. We also understand that unsettled markets can be scary for our customers and we would like to reassure them that we are here to help. 

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Smart shares a glimpse of revolutionary retirement solution, Smart Retire

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Workplace pension innovator Smart has been named as the preferred provider to deliver the secondary pension scheme which is set to be introduced into legislation by the States of Guernsey in 2020

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The innovation team showcases Smart's digital take on traditional annual pension statements - technology designed to enhance member engagement

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Workplace pensions innovator, Smart, and the leading administrator in the Australian superannuation industry, Link Group, have today announced a strategic global partnership to take their combined expertise into new markets both in the UK and globally

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The news of his new role comes at an important time for the leading workplace pensions innovator as it extends its reach in the UK as a broader DC pension provider and moves into new global territories with its platform technology arm

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Smart has hired ex-Bravura Solutions and GBST EMEA business development director Kirsty Worgan as its first Chief Commercial Officer

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Prior to joining Smart, Mark Howard spent 14 years at Clyde & Co

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Smart Pension Director of Global Clients will take up the two-year post with immediate effect

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Smart Pension has launched its simplified and standardised annual statement this month

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Technology is a given, what people really want is the choice and competition it brings, says Smart Pension’s Head of UX Innovation Harry Brignull during UK Fintech Week

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As the pensions industry prepares to bring its technology into the 21st century to match customer expectations, Sam Barton looks at the digital transformation we’ve already seen happen in banking - and compares it to the march of the fintechs that start with a clean sheet...

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Smart will be one of an initial cohort of ten sector-leading companies to take part in the initiative in Australia

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As a pensions enthusiast, I’m always trying to convince friends that it's important to save for their future – all too often, it falls on deaf ears, even before I get onto the exciting topic of tax relief

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Michael Watkins, 34, was praised by judges for the pioneering work he does to challenge convention within the financial services sector.

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Paul Bucksey has extensive expertise in the UK’s pension industry spanning two decades and at a very senior level

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Female leaders and innovators that are transforming financial technology across a broad range of financial services roles

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Smart Pension play an important role in enabling the continued growth of workplace pensions for the benefit of consumers.

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The company has taken a minority equity stake in the firm as part of Smart’s new strategic placement funding round, bringing total funds raised to date to c.£50m

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The dashboard has the potential to reconnect people with their pensions

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A key feature of our marketplace in the future will be the way the pension industry becomes increasingly aligned, through new technology, with insight and advances in medical and healthcare markets

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London has led Europe in terms of the amount invested in small and large digital businesses, building the software and services that will define the future of finance

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A key aspect of what digital brings to the pension industry is what it brings to many other market sectors across the board: efficiency and scale

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Disruptive innovation has come to be a powerful way of thinking about business growth, markets and opportunities for consumers

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New technology is rapidly changing the way the entire financial services sector operates and also creating a structural shift in how pensions are managed and delivered

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Greater financial education leads to higher levels of financial literacy which, in turn, prepares people for important challenges in their lives and enables them to improve their life chances